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The young American tragedian Edmund Collier in Metamora

Description: Image of three vignettes of fights and battles between British soldiers, pilgrims, and Native American Indians, with Indians and colonists both shooting rifles and including a scene with Indians attacking colonists in a house and an outdoor scene with colonists firing rifles on Indians who have bows and arrows and tomahawks while a man is burned at the stake in the background; the poster advertises the historical melodrama "Metamora, or The Last of Wampanoags" by John A. Stone.
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Date: approximately 1886
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000441
Creator: Last, Jay T

Battle of Newbern

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Image of a scene from the Battle of New Bern, North Carolina, in 1862 during the American Civil War; Union soldiers on foot and horseback attacking with rifles or swords advance on Confederate cannons; dead and wounded men visible on the ground; explosions visible in the air.

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Attack on an emigrant train

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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.

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The Oleander Co-operative Packing Co. Oleander. Fresno Co., Cal

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Image of fruit labels from the Oleander Co-operative Packing Company of Oleander, California; bouquets of roses and foliage tied with ribbon bows, roses, and bunches of grapes surround a center scene depicting farm fields, a barn, and mountains in the distance.

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The Soudan

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Image of a battle scene with Sudanese soldiers wearing turbans on horseback with spears and swords fighting Arab soldiers on foot with rifles; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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Image of a scene depicting the Battle of Tippecanoe near Lafayette, Indiana, in 1811; General William Henry Harrison on horseback with sword in hand at left commands American soldiers shooting rifles through trees as they try to repel an attack by spear, tomahawk, and gun-wielding Native American Indians in a wooded forest area; ranks of soldiers visible behind Harrison at left, two dead American Indian warriors lay in the clearing at center, wounded soldiers from both sides also pictured.

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Quality Amusement Corp. presents "Custer's last fight" the greatest wild west feature ever filmed

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Image of an outdoor scene showing Native American Indians on horseback shooting rifles in a battle, with a military fort that is on fire and the United States Cavalry charging down a mountains in the background; with a top left vignette of a half-length portrait of United States Army officer and cavalry commander George Custer (captioned "Gen. George A. Custer") in a military uniform with gloves and hat, and a top-right head-and-shoulders portrait of Lakota Sioux Chief Sitting Bull (captioned "Sitting Bull") wearing a headdress; the scene depicts the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn between Plains Indian tribes and the United States Army 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Black Hills of Montana; the poster advertises the film "Custer's Last Fight" released by the Quality Amusement Corporation and based on footage from a 1912 movie produced by Thomas Ince.

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The young American tragedian Edmund Collier in Metamora

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