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    Soldiers memorial : Parker's Excelsior Boys, Company D, First Battalion Governor's Guards

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    Image of a memorial military register certificate with list of soldiers' names framed by a bald eagle with Union shield, American flags, allegorical figures of women symbolizing Liberty and Justice, soldiers in a military camp during the American Civil War, sailor manning a cannon, and soldier leaving for war and then being reunited with his family.

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  • Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

    Faith hope charity : Inebriate's express

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    Image of a series of vignettes advocating temperance; scenes illustrating the adverse effects of alcohol and tobacco are contrasted with scenes showing the benefits of a life without; train at center labeled "Gin Fiend" heads toward "Tobacco Land" with demons around it and the devil beckoning from a hole in the ground, torch in hand; images of angels interspersed throughout; allegorical women at left and right symbolizing "Truth" and "Temperance."

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  • Golden sheaf bitters

    Golden sheaf bitters

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    Image of the goddess Columbia with an American flag, bald eagle, and liberty cap at the center of an advertisement for Golden Sheaf Bitters; sheaves of grain and blank banners for text at left and right.

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  • Grand Army of the Republic Department of Pennsylvania

    Grand Army of the Republic Department of Pennsylvania

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    Image of a Grand Army of the Republic military certificate issued to Thomas A. H. Hay from Philadelphia, 29 July 1907; images of an American bald eagle, Union shield, soldiers on foot and on horseback, and family scene surround text; land and naval battle scenes in background.

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  • To all whom it may concern know ye, that William Raikes

    To all whom it may concern know ye, that William Raikes

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    Image of a certificate recognizing William Raikes' tour of duty as a private of Company "G" in the "75th Regiment Ohio Volunteers Infantry" during the American Civil War handwritten in ink and framed by a design for a national monument dedicated to the "Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies" featuring statues of soldiers, women representing the goddess Columbia and History, American bald eagles, and scenes depicting a soldier's goodbye, fighting on the field, women's work on the home front, and lessons in patriotism.

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  • The outbreak of the rebellion in the United States 1861

    The outbreak of the rebellion in the United States 1861

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    Image of an allegorical critique of the American Civil War criticizing the Buchanan administration, Jefferson Davis, and the Confederacy; President Abraham Lincoln and allegorical female figures Liberty and Justice stand on an elevated plane with an American flag, bald eagle, and scale, surrounded by a crowd of people carrying symbols of rebellion, bags of money and weapons; former president James Buchanan and his Secretary of War John B. Floyd kneel in foreground; a serpent wearing a crown hisses at Justice from a tree at left.

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