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Image of a scene from the Battle of Resaca de la Palma during the Mexican-American War during which Mexico's General Rómulo Díaz de la Vega was captured in a cavalry charge led by United States Army Captain Charles May; Vega is pictured lighting a cannon and recoiling in surprise as May approaches on horseback with arm outstretched; soldiers are visible fighting on foot and on horseback, wounded, or dead in background.
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 the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, with both men in military uniform standing before a large tree in the foreground, and soldiers on horseback in the immediate background, with troops and a military camp in a field with hills and the village of Appomattox, Virginia, in the distance.
Image of a man dressed in Mexican ethnic costume on horseback with arm outstretched; flowers in the air and underfoot give a festive atmosphere to the scene printed on the cover of a special Los Angeles Times Fiesta Number issue commemorating La Fiesta de Los Angeles, a great Southern California carnival held in the spring of 1897.
Image of a group portrait of American Civil War Union General John A. Logan and his wife and adult children; three vignettes across top depict Logan on horseback leading Union soldiers with American flag, Logan on his death bed with mourning wife and visitors in the room, and Logan standing at a podium addressing politicians.
Image of a portrait on United States General Andrew Jackson on horseback raising his hat in his hand in full military uniform; soldiers fighting on the line with guns and artillery in the Battle of New Orleans in January of 1815 in the background; dead or wounded men visible on the ground.
Image of a full-length portrait of United States General Andrew Jackson on horseback raising his hat in his hand in military uniform; soldiers fighting on the line with guns and artillery in the Battle of New Orleans in January of 1815 in the background; dead or wounded men visible on the ground.
Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union Colonel Robert Latimer McCook seated on horseback in military uniform with arm outstretched and hat in hand.
