Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia Size:24x18 Depiction of Chicago World's Fair

Depiction of Chicago World's Fair with Allegorical Figures — the White City rendered as civic mythology

America 1671 — a cartographic glance backward to a continent still half-rumor

hillside hotels

the numerals trailing the name suggesting a plate pulled from some larger compendium of American likenesses — Washington rendered

1776 Centennial International Exhibition 1876 History of the United States — a commemorative print issued for Philadelphia's hundred-year reckoning

Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia Size:24x18 Depiction of Chicago World's FairCitizens Volunteer Hospital, Corner of Broad St & Washington Avenue, Philadelphia. A documentary lithograph of the Philadelphia refuge where wounded Union soldiers were fed, bandaged, and bedded by the city's own subscription charity and ledger work pressed into service while the war ground on somewhere south of Broad Street. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National