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- GLC#
- GLC04642
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa 1864
- Title
- [Great Central Fair for the Sanitary Commission envelope]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 envelope : illustrated Height: 7.8 cm, Width: 14.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Includes a printed scene depicting a wounded Union soldier in the foreground and a United States Sanitary Commission horse-drawn wagon in the background. Addressed to Joseph Reese Fry, who served as an organizer of the Union League of Philadelphia and as Chairman of the Committee on Musical Entertainments of the Sanitary Fair.
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