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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia is holding a wreath in her left hand and a Union flag in her right hand. A federal (bald) eagle and a cannon are behind her. A verse to her r... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia holding a Union flag with her right hand and pointing with her left. Caption below reads: "I am for Union TO A MAN!" Red and blue ink on beig... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia standing on a globe of the world. She is wearing a stars and stripes dress and has a sword over her right shoulder. She is pointing forward w... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a red shirt and a blue blouse with seven white stars, presumably Virginia, is shooting herself with a cannon that is marked "SECESSION." Ca... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia is standing on the body of a fallen soldier. She has a sword in her right hand and is holding the Union flag in her left hand. The words: "TH... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia holds a Union flag in her left hand and a sword, point down, in her right. To the right the text reads, "THE WAR FOR THE UNION." The letters ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Two images of the "family" of Virginia. Above depicts a happy, prosperous "family" at the Declaration of Independence in 1776. A banner with the stars and ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A rare "risque" (for the time) design. A row of soldiers look away from their officer at a young lady as she lifts her skirts to step over a puddle, exposi... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia stands on the left, she holds the Wisconsin state seal in her left hand and a Union flag in her right. A liberty cap on a pole leans on the s... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An aunt, Mary, finds two boys, Johnny and Joe, fighting. One boy is an obvious loser. The text below reads: "Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing?... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A mother, Miss Columbia, sleeps in a four poster bed. She is wearing a liberty cap. The canopy on the bed is made of Union flags. A girl, representing the ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia, holding a Union flag with a liberty cap on the pole is leaning on the Illinois state seal, with a Confederate flag under her foot. The text... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia, holding a Union flag with a liberty cap on the pole is leaning on the Wisconsin state seal, with a Confederate flag under her foot. The tex... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Miss Columbia, seated on a platform, is holding a banner with stars and the text, "WISCONSIN LOYAL TO THE UNION." Behind her are an American eagle and fede... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An angel holding a Union flag is saying "GOD WATCHES OVER THEM." Under her gaze two children peacefully sleep under a Union flag. At the foot of the bed an... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A woman is washing clothes in a washtub. The caption below reads "My only support—both boys gone to the war. I wonder if they would take me?" Red ink on be... |
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