Series 5: Other Relief Organizations and Events, 1861-1867, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials relating to various relief organizations as well as events to raise money on their behalf, primarily to assist the war effort. The series includes information concerning the Brooklyn bureau of the American Freedmen's Friend Society, led by prominent African-Americans including James N. Gloucester and William J. Wilson. Other local organizations represented include the Brooklyn and Long Island Christian Commission and the records of a collection taken in Brooklyn in response to a fire in Portland, Maine. Several other cities' Fairs are represented in the series, including newspapers printed for the Fairs at Boston, Indianapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, and Springfield, Mass. There is a small amount of information relating to the U.S. Sanitary Commission, including an overview of its operations as presented at a statistical conference in Berlin in 1863, among other documents.
Arrangement
The series is arranged with other Fairs followed by other organizations, alphabetical by city and by organization name, respectively.
Army Relief Bazaar (Albany), 1863-1864, inclusive
National Sailors' Fair (Boston): Boatswain's Whistle, 1864, inclusive
Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair (Cleveland): Sanitary Fair Gazette, 1864, inclusive
Sanitary Fair (Dutchess County and Poughkeepsie), 1864, inclusive
State Sanitary Fair (Indianapolis): Sanitary Fair Bulletin, 1864, inclusive
Metropolitan Fair (New York City), 1864, inclusive
Metropolitan Fair (New York City): Spirit of the Fair, 1864, inclusive
Great Central Fair (Philadelphia), 1864, inclusive
Great Central Fair (Philadelphia): Our Daily Fare, 1864, inclusive
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair (St. Louis), 1864, inclusive
Other Fairs, 1864, inclusive
American Freedmen's Friend Society (Brooklyn), circa 1864, inclusive
Brooklyn and Long Island Christian Commission, 1863-1864, inclusive
General Soldiers' Aid Society (Connecticut), 1863, inclusive
Portland (Maine) Fire Relief Fund: Brooklyn Contributions (2 folders), 1866-1867, inclusive
U.S Sanitary Commission (National), 1861-1864, inclusive
U.S. Sanitary Commission (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh), 1863-1864, inclusive
Bound Copies of Fair Newspapers, 1864, inclusive
General
Includes complete runs of Spirit of the Fair (New York, April 5-23), Our Daily Fare (June 8-21, Philadelphia), Boatswain's Whistle (November 9-19, Boston), and Springfield (Mass.) Musket (December 20-23).
Ladies Southern Relief Association Benefit Pamphlets, 1867, undated
Language of Materials
Scope and Contents
One pamphlet from March 22nd 1867 for poetry recitations and other recitations at the Packer Collegiate Institute, and another undated pamphlet for a concert on March 27th at Plymouth Church.
