A receipt dated September 20, 1862, from Quartermaster Charles M. Knapp for 24 birch brooms requisitioned for the Touro Almshouse in New Orleans, Louisiana. The almshouse, endowed by Judah Touro, was used as barracks by Federal troops during the Civil War and destroyed by fire in 1865.
Subject: Philanthropy -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
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