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Camp fire

Description: Image of Union soldiers in uniform around a fire during the American Civil War with tents marked "Co. B" in a military campsite; a soldier holds a cooking pan over the flames.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1865-1880
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000734
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

Camp Bayne, Virginia

Visual Materials

Image of Camp Bayne during the American Civil War located near Bell Plains, Virginia, with tents erected in a clearing of a wooded area; long ranks of soldiers assembled at center; a few men, a cook fire, horses, and wagons are visible around the edges of the camp.

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This is to certify that Edward C. Williams

Visual Materials

Image of a certificate with image of a soldier in full military uniform standing with rifle and bayonet in hand on a dirt road outside the fence of a large military encampment; ranks of soldiers on foot and on horseback, cannons, and rows of tents visible in camp; civilian man and woman in a two-wheeled horse-drawn cart in the foreground at left.

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The fire show fighting the flames : department arriving at fire

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Image of a horse-drawn fire engine and firefighters racing to the scene of a raging fire at a drugstore, with police holding back onlookers; the poster advertises the fire-disaster show "Fighting the Flames" performed for audiences at amusement parks.

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Overland Brand

Visual Materials

Image of a campsite at dusk with cows grazing, a woman cooking over an open fire, a man standing next to a covered wagon, and another woman tending to grain bags in a box; mountains in background; California Red Ball logo at lower left.

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Zachary Taylor. Major General U.S. Army

Visual Materials

Image of a portrait of Major General Zachary Taylor in military uniform seated at a table inside a tent in a military camp writing out a dispatch with quill and ink; soldier on guard duty visible near rows of tents outside in background.

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Columbia Fire Insurance Co

Visual Materials

Image of Columbia with a large American flag at the center of an advertisement for Columbia Fire Insurance Co. of New York City; images of storefronts on a commercial street on a normal day at left and with a fire engine and firefighters fighting flames at right.

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