If you have visited a National Park Service battlefield you probably stopped and looked at the wayside exhibits. These are placed on the battlefield and usually have a illustration and text. What you may not know is the NPS owns a good deal of art work; much of it commissioned for the park. These are stored at the Harper's Ferry Service Center in Harper's Ferry West Virginia. Recently most of the art work has been digital and put on line. This means you can see the art work and download copies; for your you own use.
They can be found on line. To get you started here is a link to some Rev War stuff;
npgallery.nps.gov/HFC/SearchResults/d86bb824bf2643e482ed02cc592f0854?page=1&view=grid&sort=default
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| Militia on first line at Guilford Courthouse. |
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| Webster's Brigade starts the battle of Guilford Courthouse |
It's an interesting mixed bag. There are old illustrations from past hand books from the 1950-60's. Lots of early work from a very well known artist. I also found the old slides from the 1960 slide show at Minute Man NHP!
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| Lt. Frederick |
Excellent discovery, Mark!
ReplyDeleteYour welcome!
DeleteSome nice looking artwork there Mark and thanks for the link, I will definitely be taking a shufti at what's in there!
ReplyDeleteLots of very interesting illustrations here
DeleteI shall peruse these at my leisure, so many thanks for sharing the link with us:).
ReplyDeleteYour welcome and I hope you find some works you can use.
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