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Collection Highlights
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Date:
1864
Object Number:
PR.011.5
Medium:
Albumen print mounted on card (Carte de Visite)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Banners: Secessionville, June 1862
Object Number:
1939.564
Date:
1865-1875
Medium:
Cotton chintz
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 1/4 x 22 in. ( 31.1 x 55.9 cm )
Marks:
painted: center: "SECESSIONVILLE/ JUNE 16, 1862."
Description:
Orange cotton chintz banner with white painted scrolls in the left top and right bottom corners; inscribed, "SECESSIONVILLE/ JUNE 16, 1862." at a diagonal in white letters across the banner; red, white and blue fringe on the fly end; red, white and blue ribbon ties at both ends of the hoist.
Gallery Label:
This banner is part of a set of Civil War banners memorializing twenty-two battles of the Civil War. They were given to the 79th Regiment, Scottish Highlanders, New York State Volunteers, by the United States War Department.
Credit Line:
Gift of the New York Caledonian Club
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
