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A mural depicting the surrender of French troops to the German Empire at Sedan in 1870. While this particular mural was completed in 1884, it retains the aspects of the painting shown at the Philadelphia Centennial that angered W.D. Howells, with one…

Ogden's illustration is of passengers on one of the two Iron Piers built in 1878 on Coney Island. Here the illustration attempts to capture the sheer amount of people that would await the steamboats-in the year of the art's creation almost 2 million…

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of the New York skyscraper is one example of the many ways artist tried new styles to capture the new nights of brightly lit cities. David Nye describes this version as one of the more positive depictions of the city,…

Chromolithograph by Thomas Nast. Nast was a famous cartoonist in the nineteenth century. This image was first published in Harper's Weekly, Jamuary 24, 1864.  It was reproduced as a chromolithograph and sold at the Great Central Fair, also know as…

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

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general…

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 poster of a woman golfer in 1907. It is interesting to notice that the outfit of the figure - a long dress and high heels - is not professional golf clothes. Her gesture looks relatively realistic but the overall expressive focuses more on…