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The dawn of liberty

Description: Image of General Thomas Gage, the last British military Royal Governor of Massachusetts, assuring an assemblage of boys that they need not fear his troops quartered in Boston; Gage sits in military uniform at a table with two other uniformed men facing a group of 15 boys standing by the table and coming through the door; an African American man tends a fire in the fireplace at left.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1864
Call number: priJLC_MIL_001276
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Rice's popular flower seeds

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Image of five young boys and girls playing and gathering flowers in baskets near a small wood table and chair in a field in an advertisement for Rice's seeds; flowers in margins.

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Zachary Taylor. Major General U.S. Army

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Image of a portrait of Major General Zachary Taylor in military uniform seated at a table inside a tent in a military camp writing out a dispatch with quill and ink; soldier on guard duty visible near rows of tents outside in background.

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Andy Johnson. Military Gov. of Tenn

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Image of a full-length portrait print of Military Governor of Tennessee and later United States President Andrew Johnson during the American Civil War sitting in an office at a table holding a pen; map of the United States on back wall and view out window of soldiers marching in formation.

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The dawn of freedom

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Image of goddess Columbia as an angel wrapped in an American flag holding a sword and carrying an Irish flag flying above workers and United States soldiers on foot and on horseback; ships in harbor in distance; portraits of two men, including Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet, in the sky near Columbia.

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"The shed" : published by Brewster & Co. carriage makers. 372 & 374 Broome Street, New York

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Image of an eye-level scene of the stable yard of the Woodruff Stables owned by horse dealer and trainer Hiram Woodruff in the Bronx, New York, with men standing, on horseback, and driving carriages and two dogs; handwritten and printed labels in the lower margin identify the center horse as Lady Emma and four of the men as Hiram Woodruff and Brewster and Company partners Henry Brewster, James W. Lawrence, and Jonathan W. Britton; a black man wearing a fez tends to a horse in the left corner of the image.

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Dish rag soap

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Image of an advertisement for Dish Rag soap from Schultz & Company of Zanesville, Ohio; a woman stands in a kitchen washing dishes in a tub on a table; under the table a cat rubs against the table leg; stove in background.

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