United States Sanitary Commission on. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

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In 1864, the US Sanitary Commission hosted the Great Central Sanitary Fair of Philadelphia — an event organized to raise funds for soldiers’ aid during the Civil War.

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimated at ...

The Emancipation Proclamation, also signed by Lincoln, is one of just 27 surviving limited edition copies from an original run of 48 produced to benefit the United States Sanitary Commission, a ...