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Grand Army of the Republic Department of Pennsylvania

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1907
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000849
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.

Exhibition of 1871. This diploma awarded to Mrs. Elizabeth Shaffer by the Highland Agricultural Society

Visual Materials

Image of an American bald eagle with flags, Union shield, and farming implements in a field on a certificate issued by the Highland Agricultural Society of Pennsylvania; vignettes of farming and agriculture scenes, including a smithy, woman spinning at a wheel, horses, livestock, and grain harvest surround the certificate text; Highland Agricultural Society seal at bottom left.

priJLC_AGR_001800

[Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate]

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Image of a Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate decorated with several vignettes depicting army and navy battle scenes, soldiers and sailors, and a pair of deathbed scenes; goddess Columbia with American eagle, Union shield, American flag, and laurel wreath at top center; G.A.R. badge with flag and wreath at bottom center.

priJLC_MIL_000848

Nicholas Selkirk

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Image of a military certificate honoring Nicholas Selkirk recording his tour of duty with the 6th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry regiment during the American Civil War; account of his duty handwritten in ink at the center of a shield decorated by patriotic and military emblems and medals; American bald eagle on Union shield, American flags, laurel and oak branches surround shield.

priJLC_MIL_000827

Military register : 1st New York Independent Veteran Battery

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Image of a military register with a list of military personnel framed by images of an American bald eagle with Union shield, flags, battle scene with charging cavalry soldiers on horseback, soldiers in camp, women waiting at home, and family scenes.

priJLC_MIL_000853

All honor to the brave : United States Army diploma

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Image of a blank United States military certificate honoring volunteers who served in the American Civil War; space for text in center framed by a monument capped with a portrait of President George Washington, an American bald eagle, and American flags; Union soldiers depicted relaxing in military camp and manning a cannon in foreground; cavalry troops on horseback in ranks in open field in the distance.

priJLC_MIL_000925

To all whom it may concern: know ye, that William Lair

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Image of a discharge certificate form with an American bald eagle emblem with wings displayed standing on a Union shield with American flags and an olive branch below the title; blank "Oath of Identity" form on verso.

priJLC_MIL_001223

Grand Army of the Republic Department of Pennsylvania

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