"A Slave Cabin," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
A Slave Cabin
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 10.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"A Christmas Dinner," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
A scene on the outer picket line. A soldier off duty is cooking his frugal meal in front of an improvised shelter made of pine-boughs and fence-rails.
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 9.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"A Christmas Dinner," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
A scene on the outer picket line. A soldier off duty is cooking his frugal meal in front of an improvised shelter made of pine-boughs and fence-rails.
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 9.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"Washing Day," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
A soldier with his latest wash hung out to dry on the barrel of his rifle. In the distance the column is seen on the march.
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 8.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"Washing Day," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
A soldier with his latest wash hung out to dry on the barrel of his rifle. In the distance the column is seen on the march.
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 8.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"A Rainy Day on Picket," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
An infantry-man sheltered under a pine tree, with his rifle under his arm to protect it from the rain.
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 8.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"A Rainy Day on Picket," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
An infantry-man sheltered under a pine tree, with his rifle under his arm to protect it from the rain.
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 8.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"The Leader of the Herd," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 8, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Cattle for army use led by a Zouave butcher. Across the road, under the pine trees, can be seen the graves of two Union soldiers, who have been killed in a roadside skirmish.
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 7.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"The Leader of the Herd," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, zoomable image

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Cattle for army use led by a Zouave butcher. Across the road, under the pine trees, can be seen the graves of two Union soldiers, who have been killed in a roadside skirmish.
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 7.
Source note
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 

"A Race for Camp," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876, detail

Scanned by
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Newsboys passing the picket station while on the road to camp with the latest news.
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 6.

Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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