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Honor to the brave

Description: Image of a military certificate for the 16th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers with blank shield at center flanked by scenes of battlefields and wagon trains; military accoutrements in the foreground including flags, weapons, mortar cannon and a drum.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1863
Call number: priJLC_MIL_000924
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.

All honor to the brave : United States Army diploma

Visual Materials

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.

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Soldiers' memorial : Company K 36th Reg. Iowa Vol. Inf

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Image of a memorial military register certificate from the American Civil War with list of soldiers' names framed by a bald eagle with Union shield, American flags and scenes of battlefields, soldiers in camp, on watch, and reunions with family; photograph portrait card glued to print at top right.

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

Visual Materials

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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Battle Front Brand

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Image of a military tank flanked by artillery weapons with an airplane squadron flying overhead.

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Frederick Warde : tragedian

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Image of a central head-and-shoulders profile portrait of English Shakespearean actor Frederick B. Warde in formal dress in an oval frame flanked by two full-length portraits of Warde (one on each side) in costume as two characters: a Roman soldier carrying a shield and sword at left, and as a Roman politician in a toga and sandals with a scroll in his hand; with palm fronds above the portrait and a pile of weapons including a helmet, shield, and sword.

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United States volunteer service. The president's thanks and certificate of honorable service

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Image of a military certificate of recognition of service in the American Civil War; American bald eagle emblem with Union shield, stars, and American flags at top center; certificate includes President Abraham Lincoln's thanks and certification of honorable service for Ohio National Guard Volunteer Private James Benjamin; printed signatures of President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

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