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Group at the Sanitary Commission Fair, Albany, New York
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The United States Sanitary Commission was created during the Civil War to improve conditions for northern soldiers. Women who wanted to support the Union cause initially proposed the idea, but the organization of the Commission was left to doctors and political figures.
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Credit lineGroup at the Sanitary Commission Fair, Albany, New York. 1864. Churchill and Denison Studios, active 1850s-1860s. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment. CC0.
