Battle of Mission RidgeBattle of Missionary Ridge – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Battle of Mission RidgeBattle of Missionary Ridge, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Its title names the Battle of Missionary Ridge, the Union assault in November 1863 that broke Confederate lines near Chattanooga, Tennessee, though the subject headings also list Gettysburg, so the scene may be a general Civil War battle rather than a single site. The print is a chromolithograph advertisement from about 1886 by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which used colorful cards like this to promote its reapers and mowers to farmers. Its subject headings also tie it to 1860s harvesting machinery, a reminder that the company marketed its machines in the years after the war by linking them to the nation's memory of that conflict.
| Created / published | c1886. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Copyright by McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. |
| Subjects | Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Harvesting machinery--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,470 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218161 |
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