Rescue of Major Putnam – Historic Print
![Rescue of Major Putnam, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8ad962d1054c-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Rescue of Major Putnam. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rescue of Major Putnam
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This engraving, titled *Rescue of Major Putnam*, shows a moment of danger on the frontier, with the caption tracings pointing to Native figures in the scene. The record links it to *Historical, Poetical, and Pictorial American Scenes*, page 46, a nineteenth-century collection of illustrated American historical episodes. The most likely subject is Israel Putnam, the colonial militia officer whose popular legend includes his capture by Native warriors during the French and Indian War and a dramatic reprieve from execution. The card carries no date, so the print's exact origin is unconfirmed, but its place in an anthology of patriotic scenes shows how such frontier stories were retold for general readers.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Historical, Poetical, and Pictorial American Scenes, p. 46. No ref. copy. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Indians. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,501 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158151 |
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