Collection Highlights
Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops
Date:
ca. 1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Petitions
Medium:
Paper
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Powder Horn: The St. Lawrence (FW-7), Two Sides Depicted, with a Vignette of Montreal, Canada
Object Number:
1907.36.7
Date:
1889
Medium:
Watercolor, brown and black ink and wash, and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 11 3/4 x 14 in. ( 29.8 x 35.6 cm )
Marks:
inscriptions: Signed bottom left: RAGrider Dec 28, 1889
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left below powder horn in brown ink: "RA Grider Dec. 28. 1889."; inscribed at upper center above landscape vignette in brown ink: "view of the City of MONTREAL & the St. Lawrence River"; at lower right: "The St LAWRENCE"; signed at lower right in brown ink: "R.A. Grider", following a brief history of the horn
Description:
Military
Credit Line:
Gift of Isaac J. Greenwood
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
