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The Y.M.C.A. in World War One
The Military Collection has recently acquired three water-colors painted by Walter Percival Starmer for the book The romance of the red triangle :the story of the coming of the red triangle and the...
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An original miniature portrait by Charles Wilson Peale
Born in Maryland, Charles Wilson Peale (1741-1827) studied portraiture with John Hesselius, and later with Benjamin West in London from 1767-1769. Following his return to the United States, he lived in...
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Attack on an Indian Fort
In the fall of 2010, the Military Collection acquired an interesting water-color at auction in London. The catalog described the piece as follows: English School, circa 1800. The Madras Native Infantry...
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Village Massacre by George Bellows
In 1918, the noted American artist, George Bellows (1882-1925) created a series of 5 oil paintings and 20 lithographic prints titled the WAR chronicling the activities of the German army in Belgium...
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Robert T. Landells in France, 1870-1871
The war between France and Prussia in 1870-71 attracted considerable attention from the world’s press and numerous journalists flocked to France to cover the fighting and the subsequent events in and...
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Military Collection Digital Archive surpasses 20,000 images!
The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection digital archive has just reached an important milestone – the 20,000th image. The project to scan all the prints, drawings, paintings and water-colors in the...
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Der Deutsche Michel
Among the items acquired by the Military Collection over the past several months, is a rather interesting hand-colored lithograph published in Mannheim, Germany by Korwan in 1841 after a drawing by R....
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James Robertson’s Crimean Photographs
In 2011, the Military Collection acquired five salt prints on paper from photographs taken by James Robertson (1813-1888) in the Crimea in the final months of 1855. The photographs depict the camp of...
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Walter Chapman’s World War Two drawings
In August, 1994, the Military Collection received a donation of approximately 40 pencil sketches drawn during World War Two. The donor, Walter Chapman, served with the U.S. Army during the war and...
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An Artist for the Perry Scroll?
The 12 water-color panels depicting Admiral Matthew Perry’s expedition to Japan in the early 1850′s – the so-called ‘Perry Scroll’ – are well-known and have been a source of interest and intrigue for...
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Walter Paget: A scene on the North-West Frontier in 1897
The Military Collection has recently acquired another original drawing created for a 19th century British illustrated newspaper. In this case, it is a wash and water-color drawing by Walter Paget...
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Ye Berlyn Tapestrie
One of the interests of the Military Collection are Panoramas and besides acquiring the Garibaldi Panorama as a gift in 2005, the collection owns numerous small panoramas on paper. A recent addition is...
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The Military Collection digital archive recently passed a milestone: 25,000 images and counting. The first pictures were scanned back in 2004 and through the efforts of many staff and students, we have...
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Water-colors by the Hon. Gerald Le Marchant Saumarez
Over the last few years, the Military Collection has been acquiring water-colors and drawings by Gerald Le Marchant Saumarez. This talented artist was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, in...
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Dr. William Brydon and the massacre of the British force in Afghanistan in 1842
The Military Collection recently acquired a fine colored photogravure after Lady Elizabeth Butler’s well-known 1879 Royal Academy painting, The Remnants of the Army. This depicts the ‘sole survivor’ of...
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World War Two Mural by Horace Day.
With the expectation that the United States would be drawn into war, Congress passed the Selective and Training Act of 1940 requiring all men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register with their local...
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Storming of Monte Video
The Military Collection has recently acquired an aquatint depicting the action at Monte Video, Uruguay in 1807. Entitled Storming of Monte Video, Feby 3rd 1807, it was taken “from a drawing made by...
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Recrutment des Chasseurs d’Angoulême
A recent addition to the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection is a French recruiting poster dating from 1814. This folio broadside includes representations of two uniformed figures, one a grenadier, the...
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William Simpson in Abyssinia
In 1868, the Illustrated London News dispatched the Scottish special artist, William Simpson (1823-1899) to cover the military campaign that was taking place in the east African country of Abyssinia...
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U.S. Naval Uniform Project, 1946
Following the end of World War II, the United States Navy proposed changing some of the enlisted man’s uniforms as well as those of WAVES and nurses, and commissioned some designs to be created. They...
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