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Attack on an emigrant train

Description: Image of a group of American pioneer men, women, children and a dog behind a makeshift barricade on the frontier being attacked by Native American Indians with bows and arrows on horseback; several men shoot rifles over the barricade while one reloads his gun, an African American man takes a gun offered by a woman in front of the tents, and an older man has a wound tended to; barrels and boxes advertising Anheuser-Busch are visible next to the tent in the foreground.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1912
Call number: priJLC_BEV_001841
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
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Printer: H.A. Bacon, Printer With woodcut images of a Native American Indian being attacked by two dogs and a man being attacked by a bear; text features Mr. Simpson in "Cherokees or the Dogs of the Wreck"

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Battle of Savannah - Oct. 9th 1779. (Charge and daeth [sic] of Pulaski.)

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Image of the Battle of Savannah, Georgia, in 1779 during the American Revolutionary War; United States Brigadier General Casimir Pulaski is shot and killed as he charges forward at the head of a group of French and American cavalry; British soldiers shoot at the advancing cavalry soldiers from behind a barricade; dead and wounded men visible on the ground.

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“The nigger” in the woodpile

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Image of a political cartoon parodying Republican efforts to play down the antislavery plank in their platform during the 1860 elections; editor Horace Greeley stands at left reassuring a man identified as "Young America" who points insistently toward Abraham Lincoln at right; presidential candidate Lincoln sits atop a makeshift construction made of rails marked "Republican Platform" which imprisons a grinning African American man.

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The U.S. naval battery during the bombardment of Vera Cruz on the 24 and 25 of March 1847

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Image of the United States Naval Battery during the bombardment of Veracruz, Mexico, in 1847 during the Mexican-American War; soldiers load and fire cannons behind a barricade towards the city, dead and wounded men and horses visible in the foreground; walled city of Veracruz visible past barricades; names of guns and officers printed in bottom margin.

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The fur-seal's tooth by Kirk Munroe

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Image of an advertisement for The Fur-Seal's Tooth by Kirk Munroe featuring a man with a gun being rowed in a boat by two other men towards a seal with its head above water at bottom right; linked teeth as decorative border.

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Gus Williams as John Mishler : "One of the Finest." Under the management of John Rickaby

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Image of a central image of American actor Gus Williams dressed in character as a police officer swinging a night stick with surrounding vignettes of crime scenes including a woman being held at gunpoint on a porch next to the East River in New York City where a man prepares to dive into the water to save a drowning man, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, captioned "The East River Tragedy," at upper right; Officer Mishler in his pajamas pointing a gun at a man in a hall outside of bedrooms, captioned "'Why do you interfere between man and wife?' 'On the personal responsibility of a man'- John Mishler," at bottom center; two women looking at two men on a sidewalk, captioned "The Masher," at center left; and a man holding a baby before a woman captioned "'Are you sure this is the little girl?,'" at upper left; the poster advertises the play "One of the Finest" written by Joseph Bradford.

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Attack on an emigrant train

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