File:Soldiers-Dream CI AmericanCivilWar.jpg
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"The Soldier's Dream of Home", a patriotic American Civil War print, showing a soldier in Union blue (with "U.S." belt-buckle) sleeping in a military camp, with a letter from home by his side, and dreaming of being happily reunited with his family. The four corners around the central oval are filled with U.S. heraldic shields against a star-spangled background. The poem at bottom reads:
("Fond" presumably does not mean "foolish" here, as it does in much other 19th century elevated poetic diction!) Bibliographic information found on the Loc site: TITLE: The soldier's dream of home CALL NUMBER: PGA - Currier & Ives--Old Conn. (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC2-3014 (color film copy slide) LC-USZ62-95857 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY: Union soldier lying by campfire, with rifle, drum and letter, dreaming of his welcome home by his wife and child; camp in background. MEDIUM: 1 print : lithograph, hand color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1861 and 1865] CREATOR: Currier & Ives. NOTES: Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné‚ / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5994. No. 200. SUBJECTS:
FORMAT: Lithographs Hand colored 1860-1870. DIGITAL ID: (color film copy slide) cph 3b50888 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b50888 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b41988 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b41988 VIDEO FRAME ID: LCPP003B-50888 (from color film copy slide) LCPP003B-41988 (from b&w film copy neg.) CARD #: 91787341 |
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