"Newspapers in Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

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"Newspapers in Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail
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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Image type
engraving
Original caption
Newspapers in Camp. The newsman is sitting on horseback, surrounding by men buying and reading the latest "news from the front," as it comes from the rear.
Source citation
Edwin Forbes, Life Studies of the Great Army, A Historical Work of Art in Copper-Plate Etching ...(New York: Edwin Forbes, 1876), plate 28.
Source note
Cropped from the larger version, available at http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40604
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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