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Poster

New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission Travel Poster

Date: 1936
Description: An original lithograph promoting New Hampshire as the "Land of Scenic Splendor." The poster features the artist Maxwell Parrish's depiction of a New Hampsh...
Poster

Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyère Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chemins de fer électriques de la Gruyèr railway in Switzerland. The poster features the artist Anton Reckzi...
Poster

Chemins de Fer électrique du Valais à Chamonix Travel Poster

Date: 1900
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Chemins de Fer électrique du Valais à Chamonix (Electric Railways of Valais in Chamonix) railway. The poster...
Poster

Underground Electric Railway Company: Motor Bus Travel Poster

Date: 1924
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the "The Way to London's Country by Motor Bus" using the Underground Electric Railway Company's motor bus servic...
Poster

London and North Eastern Railway Travel Poster: Forth Bridge

Date: 1930
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the London and North Eastern Railway of England and Scotland. The poster features the artist H.G. Gawthorn's dep...
Poster

Virginia Historical Pageant

Date: 1922
Description: An original colored lithograph advertising the Virginia Historical Pageant, held in Richmond, VA, May 22-28, 1922. Featuring the Henry Day Lowry Metropolit...
Map or Atlas

Navarino at the Head of Green Bay

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Description: Map of "Navarino at the Head of Green Bay." Ousconsin Territory Daniel Whitney Proprietor.
Print

"The Battle of Baton Rouge, LA. Aug 4th 1862."

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Description: A large color lithograph with caption of the battle in progress.
Print

The Siege of Vicksburg

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Description: A large lithograph showing the landscape, camps and bombardment.
Print

Confederate Ammunition Warehouse Explosion

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Description: A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ...
Print

Libby Prison

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Description: Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t...
Print

Coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee

Date: 1869
Description: A lithograph of the Coliseum for the Grand National Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts on June 15-19.
Print

National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 1890
Description: Depiction of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Boston, Massachusetts. On the border surrounding the group portrait are ind...
Print

No Traitor's Flag Shall Tarnish Thy Golden Dome With Its Rebellious Shadows

Date: 1861
Description: The State House of Massachusetts in Boston with the Union flag flying over it. Men and women walk in front of it. The caption below reads, "No traitor's fl...
Print

Hamburg Landing

Date: 05 31 1862
Description: Engraved view of the Commisary [sic] depot of Major-General Halleck's army at Hamburg Landing.
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...
Historical Object

Manchester Massacre Handkerchief

Date: 1819
Description: A commemorative handkerchief created by a wood engraving on white cotton fabric. The scene is the Manchester Reform Meeting, in England. A crowd of demonst...
Map or Atlas

Part of Map Illustrating the March of the Army Under Command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman from Atlanta Ga. to Savannah, Ga. November 15th to Dec. 21st, 1864

Date: 1865
Description: This pen and ink map sketches the route taken by General Sherman's troops from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia. Railroads, rivers, and towns are lab...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the March of the Army Under Command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman from Savannah, Ga., to Raleigh, N.C.

Date: 1864
Description: This pen and ink tracing illustrates the route traveled by Sherman's troops through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina in the winter and spring of...
Map or Atlas

Sinsinawa City, Wisconsin Territory : Situated on the South East Side of the Mound of the Same Name Near the River Mississippi.

Date: 1835
Description: Plat for a proposed Sinsinawa City (never built), in Grant County, Wis. When it became clear in the mid-1830s that Wisconsin Territory would be established...

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