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The ladies organizing committee for the New York Sanitary Fair of 1864 gathers for a commemorative portrait. The fair raised more than a million dollars despite internal dissension: rival committees of men attempted - as a Sanitary Commission member put it - to "thwart, snub, insult and override the ladies committee."
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Volunteer hostesses sell framed works of art in a gallery at New York's Metropolitan Fair.
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Costumed Brooklyn women recreate a Colonial-era kitchen in an annex of the Academy of Music.
"The Civil War, 20 Miilion Yankees", Time - Life books, page 138 |