![Item #7197 [Bound volume of sheet music including “The Children of the Battle Field.”]. James...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7197.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688760999)
Scarce sheet music sold for the benefit of three children orphaned by the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated with a lithograph based on an ambrotype portrait of the children found in their dead father’s hand. The music is preceded by a “Sketch” describing the melancholic scene of the slain and unidentified.....
![Item #7128 Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Circular. St. Louis…; [with] Mississippi Valley...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7128_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673286163)
A group of three scarce circulars issued to promote a St. Louis Sanitary Fair in 1864. The Western Sanitary Commission’s biggest fund-raising event was the Grand Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. The Commission was a private agency devoted to aiding the Union Army’s sick and wounded soldiers. Led by abolitionists and.....
A most interesting broadside advertising the sale at auction of goods unsold at one of Philadelphia’s sanitary fairs, listing a wide variety of items, including a smattering of interesting Civil War-related objects. Among the 260 items listed here (located either on the store’s second or third floor) are sewing machines.....