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Samuel B. Fales portrait

Permanent ID:
13523
Image Description:
In South Philadelphia, at the corner of Washington Avenue and Swanson Street, a neighborhood grocer named Barzilai Brown began distributing food to soldiers traveling to and from the nearby Navy Yard and railroads. This operation, originally referred to as “Brown’s,” became the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon on May 27, 1861. Samuel B. Fales was the Corresponding Secretary of the saloon.

This digital record contains one image of one print from folder 7.
Format:
Printed Matter
Dimensions:
Width: 25.4 cm, Height: 30.7 cm
Collection:
Samuel B. Fales collection of Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon papers
Library of Congress Subjects:
Fales, Samuel Bradford, 1808-1880 [info:lc/authorities/names/nr97039834]
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Portraits [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85140263]
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Societies, etc [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85140274]