The Chubachus Library of Photographic History

  Portrait of a large group of men, probably civilian kitchen workers, posing in a room which might have been a dining hall, c. 1865. The ph...

Portrait of Union artillerymen of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment posing in their dining hall in Camp Smith in Cairo, Illinois,...

Interior view of a mess hall at Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C., c. 1864. Animated stereoscopic photographs. Source.

African American men, probably wait staff, posing in a banquet hall at the Great Sanitary Fair in Philadelphia, June 1864. Animated stere...