Relief for Starving Thousands
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A December 1862 public appeal addressed to the people of Pennsylvania, asking for money and food to relieve starving cotton mill workers in Lancashire and Cheshire, England, during the Cotton Famine caused by the American Civil War. It names a Philadelphia relief committee and treasurer, and the third page quotes British newspaper accounts of unemployment and hardship among cotton operatives.
- Type
- Ephemera
- Date
- December 1862
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 3
- Archive notes
- From Library of Congress
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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