Image of a military register with an American bald eagle on the Union shield with snake in beak and talons; background images of United States tranquil town scene in 1776 contrasting with military camp and naval ships in 1862; American flag at center; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in top corners with United States presidents' surnames in between; names of military personnel at center.
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 a military register with an American bald eagle on the Union shield with snake in beak and talons; background images of United States tranquil town scene in 1776 contrasting with military camp and naval ships in 1862; American flag at center; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in top corners with United States presidents' surnames in between; names of military personnel at center.
Image of an eagle on the United States Union shield holding arrows and an olive branch in its talons on a recruitment poster for the Union military during the American Civil War.
Image of a military register listing the officers and privates of Company G of the 13th Regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War in panels framed by portraits of United States presidents, including George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln; American bald eagle at center with American flags, serpents, columns and cornucopias in border; military camp and city in background.
Image of a military register listing the officers and privates of Company B of the 6th Battery of the New York State Volunteer Light Artillery unit during the American Civil War in panels framed by portraits of United States presidents, including George Washington, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln; American bald eagle at center with American flags, serpents, columns and cornucopias in border; military camp and city in background; three carte-de-visite photo portraits of children glued in oval frames at center.
Image of an advertisement for the Advance Thresher Company of Battle Creek, Michigan; portraits of United States presidents, labeled with names and years in office from George Washington in 1789 to Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 frame a pair of scenes contrasting African American slaves threshing on a plantation in Virginia in 1788 with machine threshing a harvest in the early 1900s; herald-bearer with banner for Advance at top center.
Image of the goddess Columbia seated with a laurel wreath in hand surrounded by American flags with an American eagle in the Union shield near her feet; portraits of the United States presidents from 1776-1876 and Revolutionary War generals curve around the central image of Columbia; an aerial view of the buildings for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 at top center with closer views of Independence Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, and Faneuil Hall inset; contrasting vignettes of a Revolutionary War battlefield and a prosperous agrarian and industrial scene captioned "The Struggle for Liberty" and "Peace and Prosperity" at lower left and right.
