Date: | 08 20 1862 |
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Description: | Confederate wildcat money used during the Civil War. |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | African American man, left, map depicting Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right. Key of "DIRECTIONS" in upper right corner. At... |
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... |
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: | 07 18 1861 |
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Description: | Letterhead with a rifle, sword, horn, and Revolutionary War-era hat surrounding a scroll reading: "1776." Text below the illustration reads: "The Old Conti... |
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: | 11 23 1863 |
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Description: | A receipt made out to Abraham Gilman for the $300 he paid to avoid serving his draft duty in the Civil War. |
Date: | 10 10 1861 |
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Description: | Letterhead of a Revolutionary War soldier standing and holding up the American flag in his right hand, and holding a rifle in his left hand. A plow is behi... |
Date: | 03 08 1869 |
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Description: | Letterhead featuring a bust of General Grant surrounded by a wreath, the American flag, an eagle, a cannon and cannon balls, and other instruments of war. ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | The first national flag of the Confederacy (Stars and Bars) and the slogan: "We are in the field, and the bars are up!" Red and blue ink on cream envelope,... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Piece of rope with one end tied in the form of a noose, depicting a skull. Caption below reads: "End of Secession." Blue ink, illustration on right side of... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A rope is tied in a noose inside of a frame. Caption reads: "Good Noose for TRAITORS." Black ink on yellow envelope, illustration is on left side. Mounted ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | The Confederate flag. Pro-Confederate envelopes were not as common as pro-Union envelopes. Black ink on beige envelope, image covers entire front. Image p... |
Date: | 05 25 1864 |
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Description: | Letterhead of a belt looped in a circle around interlocking letters reading: "USA." Text printed on the belt reads: "United We Stand, Divided We Fall." Ill... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | An illustration of the Devil holding a pitchfork. The words: "THE DEVIL" are on his chest. Caption below reads: "THE FIRST SECESSIONIST." Black ink on beig... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Portrait of Michael Corcoran. Caption below reads, "SONS OF ERIN!-Let the watchword be CORCORAN! RESCUED IF LIVING, AVENGED IF DEAD!" Black ink on beige en... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | The Confederate flag, upside down. Caption below reads, "A flag-itious article out of place." Blue and red ink on cream envelope, image in upper left corne... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A figure has two faces. Facing left a smiling (Union) face is saying "How about Washington?" Facing right a grumpy (Confederate) face is saying "Let me alo... |
Date: | 06 1863 |
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Description: | Halftone print of an adolescent Old Abe, bald eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Civil War Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Closeup image of Old Abe on his shi... |
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