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Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia

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Title: Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, the first opened for Union volunteers in the United States. 1009 Otsego St. Philadelphia
Creator: Traubel, M. H. (Morris H.), 1820-1897, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1862
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of interior and exterior views of Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, near the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad station during the American Civil War; exterior view includes rows of soldiers at attention, civilians, and signs and flags for the saloon, with a goddess Columbia figure holding an American flag riding a bald eagle in clouds; interior view includes soldiers at tables of food in dining hall, men of the Committee in suits in foreground, and American flag draperies along wall and ceiling.
"ChromoLithography of M.H. Traubel 409 Chestnut St. Phila."--text, bottom right margin. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862 by Wm. M. Cooper, C.V. Fort & Co. in the Clerks Office in the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn."--text, bottom center margin. "Committee - S.W. Nickles. / E.S. Cooper. / E.T. Hall. / L.W. Thornton. / P. Fitzpatrick. / Thomas H. Rice. / J. Coward. / A.H. Cain. / Ic. Plant. / Wm. R.S. Cooper. / C.V. Fort. / B. Frank Palmer. / H.W. Pearce. / Capt. A.D. Davis. / Wm. M. Cooper. / Wm. M. Maull. / A. Simpson. / Wm. Sprole. / R.G. Simpson. / J.J. Hill / W.T.H. Dennis. / R.H. Hoffner. / J. Plant. / L.B.M. Dolby. / W.R. Melon. / R.H. Ransley. / T.L. Coward. / Wm. H. Morrison. / H.H. Webb."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 87.63 x 65.09 cm (34 1/2 x 25 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_000735
383301
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1019
Language: English
Subject: Columbia (Symbolic character)--Pictorial works
Cooper Shop Volunteer Refreshment Saloon--Pictorial works
Dining rooms--Pictorial works
Eagles--Pictorial works
Soldiers--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
American Civil War
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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