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Washington Artillery, Boston, Jan. 1853

Description: Image of the Washington Artillery Regiment outside Boston, Massachusetts, in 1853; ranks of soldiers at attention in military uniform with swords or rifles with bayonets at their sides stand in a field; civilian men, women, and children under a large tree, military camp tents, and a pair of cannons near a flag pole visible in background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1853
Call number: priJLC_MIL_001292
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: 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.

Fort Sumter I. & A.N. Stauffer respectfully announce that they have just received from Philadelphia, their new spring & summer goods

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Image of several soldiers in military uniforms standing at attention in ranks carrying packs and rifles with bayonets; one soldier holding a spyglass stands facing the group and points, directing the troops in front of him.

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Review of the Mass. volunteer militia. at Concord, Sept. 9th, 1859

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Image of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia and the artillery of Boston assembled for review by Governor Nathaniel P. Banks and Major General John Ellis Wool in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1859; many ranks of soldiers outside a military camp on foot, on horseback, and accompanying horse-drawn cannons march past an assembled group of military and civilian observers; camp tents and landscape in background; small vignette with battle monument and a single man observing in bottom center margin.

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This is to certify that Edward C. Williams

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Image of a certificate with image of a soldier in full military uniform standing with rifle and bayonet in hand on a dirt road outside the fence of a large military encampment; ranks of soldiers on foot and on horseback, cannons, and rows of tents visible in camp; civilian man and woman in a two-wheeled horse-drawn cart in the foreground at left.

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Camp Washington, near Centennial Grounds, July, 1876. 7th Regiment N.G., S.N.Y

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Image of Camp Washington located near the grounds for the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; soldiers of the 7th Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York armed with rifles and bayonets shown assembled in the center of camp; large American flag flying on flag pole at center; tents and cannons surround the camp perimeter with wooded area in the background.

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National Guard 7th Reg. N.Y.S.M

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Image of the 7th Regiment of New York National Guard preparing for review and inspection in 1855 at Camp Worth in Kingston, New York; ranks of soldiers assembled in front of a military camp full of tents with soldiers mounted on horseback passing by; cannons at left; group of civilian onlookers in foreground; American bald eagle with Union shields, military flags, and a banner that reads," Pro Patria et Gloria" in bottom center margin.

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Battle near Orleans

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Image of the Battle of Orleans, France, in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War; hundreds of German and Bavarian-French soldiers clash on the battlefield under Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia (at left) and General Charles-Denis Bourbaki of France (center); artillery and cannons, mounted soldiers, and men with rifles and bayonets attack; dead, wounded, smoke and explosions visible throughout scene.

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Washington Artillery, Boston, Jan. 1853

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