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Book or Pamphlet

Slave Catchers

Date: 1849
Description: Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves.
Magazine or Periodical

The First Louisiana Native Guards

Date: 02 28 1863
Description: The First Regiment of the Louisiana Native Guards disembarking at Fort Macomb, Louisiana. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally...
Poster

Let 'Em Have It! - Let's All Back the Attack!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 34, "Let Em' Have It." The poster features a soldier preparing to throw a grenade over barbed wire into a burning field. In the bottom ...
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
Print

Gettysburg

Date: 
Description: Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America.
Print

That Feed Won't Do

Date: 1860
Description: Soldier-farmer, "Jeffy" (Jefferson) Davis, in full uniform with a straw hat is giving feed (bonds) to a sow (the Confederacy). The sow is in turn feeding i...
Print

Valentine Greetings

Date: 
Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Poster

Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys DPP?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lunging soldier pointing a gun in thr foreground. Behind the soldier is a boy in overalls with his hand on the soldie...
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds...

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