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The 25th in Virginia

Description: Image of ten vignettes with captions of Union military camp life at Fort Albany, Virginia, including scenes depicting soldiers, African Americans, tents, men boarding and on deck of a ship, and a soldier mounted on horseback; some scenes are intended to be humorous or include social commentary.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1861
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000839
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.

Albany Army Relief Bazaar February 22nd, 1864

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Image of scenes from the Albany Army Relief Bazaar held in Albany, New York, in 1864; outdoor winter scene at center with pedestrians and horse drawn sleighs on the road outside the Bazaar building surrounded by interior scenes depicting international exhibits and onlookers; vignettes of soldiers in a hospital and wounded on a battlefield at left and right; sculptures and busts in border with captions.

priJLC_MIL_000905

This is to certify that Edward C. Williams

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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.

priJLC_MIL_001274

Ballads of our fore-fathers

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Image of an advertisement for Ballads of Our Fore-fathers including The Boston Tea Party, Yankee Doodle, Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, and Pretty Peggy & Pray Papa; four vignettes illustrate tea being served, an American Revolutionary soldier on horseback, two children being told a story by an older woman, and a portrait of a girl wearing a hat.

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The southern prisons of the U.S. officers

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Image of twelve vignettes depicting scenes from life in Confederate military prisons for Union prisoners during the American Civil War, including soldiers near tents, hospitals, a workhouse, prisoners playing musical instruments, and receiving mail; captions below each image.

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Andersonville Prison

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Image of an elevated view of the Andersonville prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp in Georgia, with prisoners clustered in groups around tents in the central image; surrounded by twenty-two vignettes including a portrait of Sergeant Leroy Key, Captain Henri Wirz, scenes of prison life, prisoner escapes, and sick and dying prisoners; vignettes are numbered with key in bottom margin.

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The Union defenders certificate, in support & defence of the government, the Union and the Constitution of the United States, against the great rebellion

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Image of a blank military certificate with three vignettes of American Civil War military scenes: Union soldiers marching with fife, drum, and American flag, soldiers manning a cannon, and troops on foot and on horseback march down a road past a grave marked "Grave of the Brave" as an African-American woman, man and boy with dog look on.

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