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Battle of Spottsylvania by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers c. 1888 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | ||
Siege of Vicksburg by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers c. 1888 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | 13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, assisted by the Navy under Admiral Porter--Surrender, July 4, 1863 | |
Battle of Chattanooga by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers c. 1888 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | ||
Battle of Chickamauga by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers c. 1890 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | ||
First Battle of Bull Run by Kurz & Allison Art Publishers 1889 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | ||
The Monitor and Merrimac: The First Fight Between Ironclads by Louis Prang 1886 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Prang, Louis | The Battle of Hampton Roads, often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (or Merrimac) or the Battle of Ironclads, was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies. | |
Prang's Valentine cards by Louis Prang 1883 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Prang, Louis | Advertisement for Prang's greeting cards, showing a woman holding a group of tethered cherubs, who float like a bunch of balloons above her. One of the cherubs is portrayed as a baby of African descent. | |
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge by John Singer Sargent 1923 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
From: Special Collections
in the Library of Congress
In 1935
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge (1864-1953), one of the great patrons of music,
created at the Library of Congress the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
for the support of chamber music. Her aim, Mrs. Coolidge wrote in that year's
Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, was "to make... | |
Hancock at Pickett's Charge by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1887 May 16 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | ||
Battle of Chickamauga by Alfred Rudolph Waud 20 September 1863 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. | Waud, Alfred Rudolph |
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