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| Date: | 07 02 1813 |
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| Description: | A handbill circulated by Governor Meigs and General McArthur of Ohio in an effort to recruit men into the local militia. Men were needed to serve against t... |
| Date: | 02 13 1815 |
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| Description: | Newspaper article declaring peace between the United States and Great Britain at the end of the War of 1812. |
| Date: | 09 20 1814 |
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| Description: | First newspaper printing of "The Star Spangled Banner". Printed six days after the Battle of Fort McHenry, where Frances Scott Key wrote the poem that woul... |
| Date: | 07 29 1812 |
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| Description: | A handwritten order to evacuate Ft. Dearborn. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up seated portrait of Col. John Johnston. Johnston is pictured here as an elderly man; however, he is remembered in Wi... |
| Date: | 09 07 1913 |
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| Description: | One-page menu printed on a wide silk ribbon to commemorate the victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, ... |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of Col. William Martin of Tennessee. Williams was an early Tennessee settler who fought in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Poster with an illustration of a wounded soldier pointing back to a line of civilians standing in front of a cashier's window. At the top of the poster is ... |
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