
A Startling Announcement
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1862 · Lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Startling Announcement
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1862 · Lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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Terrific Engagement between the "Monitor" 2 guns, and "Merrimac" 10 guns, in Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862 – The First Fight Between Ironclad Ships of War
Frances Flora Bond Palmer (d. 1876)
1862 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Splendid Naval Triumph on the Mississippi, April 24th, 1862: Destruction of the Rebel Gunboats, Rams, and Iron Clad Batteries by the Union Fleet under Flag Officer Farragut
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1862 · Color lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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The War for the Union, 1862 – A Bayonet Charge (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
Winslow Homer (d. 1910)
July 12, 1862 · Wood engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Brigadier General Gustavus A. DeRussy and Staff on Steps of Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia
Alexander Gardner (d. 1882)
May 1864 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
live![[Union Cavalry Soldier, Seated, with Sword and Handgun] by Unknown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP265336.jpg)
[Union Cavalry Soldier, Seated, with Sword and Handgun]
Unknown
1861–65 · Tintype with applied color
Cleared · Public Domain
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Frances Clalin Clayton
Samuel Masury (d. 1874)
1864 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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Frances Clalin Clayton
Samuel Masury (d. 1874)
1864 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
The War for the Union – Surprise of Rebel Guerrillas by a Squadron of United States Cavalry (from "Harper's Weekly," vol. 6, pp. 728-729)
Thomas Nast (d. 1902)
November 15, 1862 · Wood engraving
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
The War for the Union, 1862 – A Cavalry Charge (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)
Winslow Homer (d. 1910)
July 5, 1862 · Wood engraving
In copyright
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