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Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Circular. Saint Louis, Mo., February 5, 1864. The fair will be held in the city of St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday, the 17th day of May next, to continue two or more weeks. Its object is to raise a sufficient fund for the sanitary uses of the armies in the Mississippi Valley, and for relief of their sick and wounded, under the general direction of the Western Sanitary Commission, whose headquarters are at St. Louis. ..
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Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. Circular. [electronic resource] : Saint Louis, Mo., February 5, 1864. The fair will be held in the city of St. Louis, Mo., on Tuesday, the 17th day of May next, to continue two or more weeks. Its object is to raise a sufficient fund for the sanitary uses of the armies in the Mississippi Valley, and for relief of their sick and wounded, under the general direction of the Western Sanitary Commission, whose headquarters are at St. Louis. ...
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[St. Louis : s.n., 1864]
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[4] p. ; 26 cm.
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Title from caption and first lines of text.
Signed on p. [2]: Major-General W.S. Rosecrans, president [and five others].
Followed by a list of "Honorary members," "Standing Committee," "Executive Committee of Gentlemen," and "Executive Committee of Ladies."
"Note.--All goods and packages, of whatever kind, should be distinctly marked with the name of the donor and place from which sent, and directed James E. Yeatman, Saint Louis, Mo., (for M.V.S. Fair.) ... Donations of money are specially solicited, and should be sent by mail or express to Samuel Copp, Jr., treasurer, &c., Saint Louis, Mo."--p. [3].
Another edition is dated "St. Louis, Mo., February 5, 1864," lists 50 names of members of the "Executive Committee of Ladies," and has slight variations in footnote on p. [3].
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 11794).
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English
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June 16, 2008
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Western Sanitary Commission.
United States Missouri Saint Louis.
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