News from home / EF. – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of News from home / EF.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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News from home / EF.
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Dated September 30, 1863, this pencil drawing is titled "News from Home" and is tied to Culpeper Court House, a Virginia town that served as a major Union camp and staging area that fall. Soldiers there depended on letters and newspapers from families far away, and a scene built around the arrival of news would have spoken directly to that daily hunger for word from home. The record names only the initials "EF." and does not identify the artist, so the drawing's maker and its exact circumstances remain unconfirmed. Its modest pencil medium and its wartime date make it a small but useful window onto camp life in northern Virginia.
| Created / published | 1863 Sept. 30. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | J.P. Morgan |
| Notes | Culpepper [sic] Court House |
| Subjects | Va."--on mount. Gift |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,462 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218125 |
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