Image of a proof sheet for a set of 12 cards depicting soldier, composer, and bandmaster Patrick Gilmore conceiving of an idea and then presenting a vocal and instrumental musical performance to guests in a temperance hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the cards is captioned "Carl Serrahn's Delight..."
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 Louis Prang archive was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
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Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union Major General Quincy Adams Gilmore in military uniform on horseback pointing with arm outstretched; soldiers on horses and on foot in background; dead soldier and cannon ball in foreground.