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Drawing

Camp of 22nd Wisconsin

Date: 1862
Description: Sketch of Boone's Knob and the Kentucky River, where Company A of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry camped, November-December, 1862. The sketch was drawn by Priv...
Photograph

Fort Boonesborough

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Description: Drawing of an elevated view of Fort Boonesborough, built by Daniel Boone in 1775. Caption reads: "Boone's Fort."
Drawing

Soldiers Bunks at Fort Holt

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Description: Drawing of a soldier holding a cup, standing next to his bunk at Fort Holt. Civil War firearms are in the closet on the right. Another man is in the backgr...
Drawing

Steamers at Memphis

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Description: "Steamers at Memphis at time of capturing New National, Kentucky." Preliminary sketches.
Photograph

Keogh Portrait

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a soldier named Keogh standing in military uniform.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Fun Travel Adventure

Date: 12 1968
Description: Cover of "Fun Travel Adventure," an underground newspaper, depicting a photomontage of soldiers at Iwo Jima with an oversized, purple flower replacing the ...
Photograph

Robert Hill

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Description: Three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Robert Hill, Company C, 1st Wisconsin Infantry.
Photograph

Julius I. Comstock

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Lieutenant Julius I. Comstock, Company F, 16th Wisconsin Infantry.
Photograph

Henry C. Dunlap

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Henry Clay Dunlap, Company A, 3rd Kentucky Infantry. When the regiment was originally mustered at Camp Dick R...
Print

Proclamation. To the Inhabitants of Kentucky!

Date: 08 22 1862
Description: A call to arms issued by Confederate colonel John H. Morgan, asserting that the Confederacy is winning the war. He mentions George B. McClellan, Thomas J. ...
Photograph

Manning F. Force

Date: 07 1865
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Manning F. Force, Major General of volunteers, sometime after the Siege of Vicksburg where he was shot below his right...
Map or Atlas

Map of Daniel Boone's Dwelling

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Description: A hand-drawn map including the location of Daniel Boone's home and two forts, northeast of Lexington, Kentucky.
Photograph

Lewis Arms Eating Chow

Date: 1960
Description: Lewis Arms, wearing army gear, eats chow outdoors.
Photograph

Josiah Ficklin

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype, Quarter-length portrait of Josiah Ficklin. Hand coloring on cheeks. Ficklin was from Lexington, Kentucky, and one of the defende...
Photograph

African-American Students with Military Escort at Sturgis High School

Date: 09 11 1956
Description: African-American students escorted from Sturgis High School by armed National Guardsmen.
Map or Atlas

Map of the state of Kentucky with the Adjoining Territories, 1795

Date: 1795
Description: Detailed map of Kentucky and most of Tennessee. The map shows the borders, counties, cities, towns, Native American towns, forts, roads, mountains, lakes, ...
Map or Atlas

Kentucky, Reduced from Elihu Barker's Large Map

Date: 1795
Description: Detailed map of Kentucky showing counties, cities, towns, Native American towns, forts, salt licks, roads, prairies, mountains, lakes, and rivers. Numerous...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the Rapids of the Ohio

Date: 1793
Description: Detailed topographical map of the Ohio River between Clarkville and Louisville. It shows plots of farmland, forest, islands, garden plots, houses, Fort Fe...
Photograph

Lewis Arms at Fort Knox

Date: 07 1962
Description: Lewis Arms is standing next to an army tank in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He is wearing a military uniform and helmet. Three men are standing and sitting on top ...
Photograph

Chow in the Field

Date: 08 1962
Description: Lewis Arms and other men preparing chow outdoors at an Army post at Fort Knox.

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