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Fort Howard Drawing

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Description: View of a fort with fortified walls and a flag flying from the fort. A river runs on the right of the image. A boat with sails floats on the river. Sold...
Drawing

General Rosecranz / Battle at Corinth

Date: 10 03 1862
Description: "General Rosecranz and staff huredly [sic] erecting earthworks during the Battle at Corinth. The enemy driving in our lines." Men are on horses on a...
Drawing

Battle of Fort Donelson

Date: 02 15 1862
Description: "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ...
Drawing

Magazine at Farmington

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Description: A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ...
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat, one on horseback with a spear or coup stick.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat, one on horseback.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat, one leading a horse.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat. One horse.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Three men, two on horseback riding in opposite directions. Third standing, firing a gun.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men, two horses, one ridden by one of the men.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men, one prone, the other touching him with what may be a coup stick.
Drawing

Comanche Combat

Date: 09 1890
Description: Combat between a Comanche (left) and a Kiowa (right) done by a Comanche boy, at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, Oklahoma.
Photograph

War Dance

Date: 09 1890
Description: A drawing of a war dance including Kiowas, Osages, and Pawnees drawn by a Comanche boy, at Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, Oklahoma.
Book or Pamphlet

Arrest at Guttenberg

Date: 1903
Description: Drawing of a sheriff arresting Herbert "Chub" Fowler. The sheriff, holding Fowler by the shoulder and carrying a billy club in the other hand, says, "Your ...
Drawing

Petroglyph Tracing

Date: 06 1879
Description: Tracing of a petroglyph depicting an animal figure pursued by a human figure with a bow and arrow followed by a child.
Drawing

Petroglyph Tracing

Date: 06 1879
Description: Tracing of a petroglyph depicting an animal that has been shot with an arrow.
Drawing

"Arms for Sale"

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Description: Profile portrait of bald-headed man wearing a pair of eyeglasses with a cannon in place of his nose. At the top the text reads: "Arms For Sale," and at the...
Drawing

Soldier and Missile

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Description: Drawing of a soldier, wearing a backpack and a helmet that covers his eyes, sitting next to a missile, labeled "HATE." In the sky is the word: "POLITICS." ...
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Partial illustration art of two American World War II soldiers in military uniform and helmets holding rifles as they advance under exploding artillery ove...
Poster

All Slackers to the Front!

Date: 1917
Description: Hand-drawn poster. At the bottom is a soldier with a pack and a rifle on his back, carrying a US flag, embracing a woman. At the top is a general with the ...

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