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Illustrated chart of our American republic

Description: Image of five color printed vignettes related to American patriotism, union, and temperance at center featuring an American bald eagle, doves, angels, and soldiers with text banners and captions; 20 uncolored portraits of soldiers, men, women, and allegorical figures at left and right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1873
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000820
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.

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.

priJLC_MIL_000861

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."

priJLC_POL_002671

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.

priJLC_MED_004466

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.

priJLC_MIL_000849

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.

priJLC_MIL_000953

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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Illustrated chart of our American republic

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