Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
GAR membership certificate.
Call Number
A Middle 30/Drawer 09/GC024/Full Folio/19th c./Artists A-L GA 2007.00006
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcvt150x481
Publisher
New York : [s.n.], 1874.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1874
Extent
1 item ; sheet 71.2 x 56.1 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Chromolithographs
Depiction: [as described by vendor] "The top center has a large allegorical figure and eagle, the upper corners show land battles, the center left panel shows a naval battle, center right shows the ambulance corps in action, and the lower corners show sickbed and and deathbed scenes respectiviely; lower center has a shield and ribbon badge."
Inscribed: This is to certify that ___was a___Co.___Regt.___Vols. who was Honorably discharged on the ___day of 18__and was mustered as a comrade of___Post No.___G.A.R. Dept.___on the ___day of___18___,' (with space for the signatures of the Adjutant and Post Commanders).
Item description: Published five years after the GAR switched from a military organization into a fraternal group.

Discovery Information

Subject
Americana
Symbolism in art
United States—History—Civil War, 18611865—Campaigns—In art
Certificates—Specimens
Grand Army of the Republic—History—19th century
United States—History—19th century—In art
United States—History, Military19th century—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d1539d0b-7b14-47db-add9-caccab88a8e6/manifest