Mrs. Murray's strategy / E. Percy Moran. – Vintage Print
(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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Mrs. Murray's strategy / E. Percy Moran.
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Mrs. Murray's strategy refers to a Revolutionary War story from September 1776, when New York was under British threat. According to a widely repeated legend, Mary Murray entertained British officers at her house on Murray Hill with food and wine and kept them occupied while American troops under Israel Putnam withdrew from Manhattan. This color halftone reproduces a painting by E. Percy Moran, issued around 1908 by the Gerlach-Barklow Company of Joliet, Illinois, which printed many patriotic scenes of this kind. Historians have questioned parts of the tale, so it is best read as popular patriotic history.
| Created / published | c1908. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by the Gerlach-Barklow Col., Joliet, Ill., U.S.A. No. M2207. Reproduction of painting by E. Percy Moran. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Military personnel--British. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,060 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-114256 |
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