Sanitary Fair Medallions

"Great Central Sanitary Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission," Philadelphia, 1864

"North Western Sanitary Fair," Chicago, 1865

"Great Fair for the Sanitary Commission," New York, 1864

"Soldiers' Fair," Springield, Mass, 1864

Sanitary Fair Commemorative Medals, 1864-1865
[Storer 5584, 5625, 5662, 5649].
From the Storer Memorial Collection of Medical Medals. Gift of Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D., to the Boston Medical Library, 1900.

These commemorative medals are from the sanitary fairs at New York, Philadelphia, Springfield, Massachusetts, and Chicago—the last held shortly after the end of the war and death of Abraham Lincoln.