Image of the military camp of the Sixteenth Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Edgefield, Tennessee; tents and Union soldiers and cavalry in foreground; view of Nashville, Tennessee, along the Cumberland River, the State Capitol building, bridge, and riverboats in background.
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.
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Image of military Camp Union near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with American Civil War soldiers of the 1118th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry drilling and band marching in front of rows of tents and a large American flag as civilian spectators watch; names of committee members of the Corn Exchange Regiment in bottom margin.
Image of the 10th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry drilling in ranks at military Camp Brightwood, Washington, D.C.; Union soldiers march led by officers on horseback; American flag, tents, covered wagons and cannons visible around the camp.
Image of an aerial view of Camp Belger military camp in Baltimore, Maryland, during the American Civil War; soldiers from the 114th Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry drilling in long ranks in yard with rows of military camp tents spread out behind in a tree-lined area; American flag on flag pole at center.
Image of Camp Carroll in Baltimore, Maryland, during the American Civil War; military tents and buildings, artillery, and a group of soldiers on horseback in foreground with the 13th Cavalry Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers assembled beyond; the city of Baltimore is visible in the background; text listing over 40 names of the "field and staff" of the regiment in bottom margin.
Image of an elevated view of cavalry executing military exercises at the Camp Bates military camp during the American Civil War; tents and housing visible past cavalry drilling in yard.
This collection contains approximately 1,000 printed 19th and early 20th century entertainment broadsides, playbills, and related advertisements, and forms a subset within the Jay T. Last Collection of Entertainment. These items advertise theatrical performances including plays, variety entertainment such as minstrel, burlesque, and vaudeville shows, and optical displays such as dioramas, living statues, and tableaus. Over 250 theaters primarily from the Northeastern United States are represented in the collection, though there are also materials from theaters in the Midwestern, Southern, and Western United States, and approximately 26 items from Canada, Ireland, England, and Scotland. The materials range in size from approximately 9 1/2 x 6 inches to 42 1/2 x 14 inches and consist of single-sheet unfolded advertisements for theatrical productions that were intended to be distributed by hand, posted on walls, fences, or in windows, or sold to playgoers entering the theater. Among the names given to these types of advertisements, according to their size and mode of distribution, are broadsides, dodgers, handbills, hangers, playbills, posters, and show bills.
