Image / Camp 5th New York heavy artillery Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry, VA

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Title: Camp 5th New York heavy artillery Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry, VA
Creator: Day, Ward S., artist
E. Sachse & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of the military camp of the 5th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment in Harpers Ferry, (now) West Virginia; rows of buildings and groups of soldiers at center; camp activity, artillery, horse-drawn wagons and women hanging laundry on a line at the edges of camp; American bald eagle at top center with banner and Union shield.
"Lith. by E. Sachse & Co. Baltimore."--text, bottom right margin. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by E. Sachse & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Md."--text, bottom center margin. "Drawn by Ward S. Day, Artificer, [?] Company."--text, bottom left margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 51.12 x 72.39 cm (20 1/8 x 28 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_001244
491188
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4076
Language: English
Subject: Military camps--Pictorial works
Soldiers--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place: Harpers Ferry (W. Va.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
American Civil War
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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