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Offical Souvenir Guide for the 1897 National Encampment

A stylized shot glass personalized for a "Joe", from a turn-of-the-century store in Atlantic City. - Bradford Gladstone

Paperweight Commemerating Ferris Wheel at 1893 Chicago World's Fair

1841 Model Smoothbore Cannon sits quietly on the hallowed grounds of the Vicksburg Battlefield in Mississippi.

A newspaper for citizens in Mississippi that details the war, with a definite slant and focus on the southern success. The newspaper is printed on wallpaper which can suggest that paper was hard to come by and resources were more limited during war…

This is a set of two experimental images in which the project Virtual Gettysburg attempts to allow viewers to experience an original stereoscopic image from the Civil War on a computer screen using 3D glasses. The image itself is of Rock Creek, a…

A glass negative of Louisa Lee Schuyler, a philanthropist who began her career as the office organizer for the Woman's Central Association of Relief, alongside Barnard College Dean Virginia Gildersleeve. This photo was most likely taken at Columbia…

It seems to show two soldiers (one of which is injured/wounded) at an abandoned/war-torn base. The location is unknown.

- Calen McGee

From June 7th to June 21st in 1864 the U.S. Sanitary Commission held a fundraising even on Logan Square. It was the only such fair that President Lincoln attended; he gave a speech there.

Half a stereo card showing the construction of the main sanitary fair building