File:Civil War envelope showing sailor climbing up flagpole to American flag with lines from poem LCCN2011648571.jpg

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English: Title: Civil War envelope showing sailor climbing up flagpole to American flag with lines from poem Abstract/medium: 1 print on envelope.
Date between 1861 and 1865
date QS:P,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Author Drake, Joseph Rodman, 1795-1820.
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Collection
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Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs
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  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Addressed to Miss Adelia Fries, Philadelphia, No. 931 No[r]th Tenth Street; postmarked [Alex]andria, Va.; bears 3 cent stamp. Notation at bottom of envelope: Wm. Birney, Maj., 4 [?] Regt., N.J. Vols.
  • Lines from poem The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake: Flag of the free heart's hope and home, by angel hands to valor given; Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, and all thy hues were born in heaven.
  • Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
  • Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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lot 14043 · liljenquist family collection of civil war photographs · civil war · prints and photographs division
Subject
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birney, william · associated objects · united states · army · new jersey infantry regiment, 4th · flags · american · sailors · poetry · history · civil war · social aspects · patriotic envelopes · prints · stamps
Location
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united states
Place
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United States
Genre
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Patriotic envelopes--1860-1870 · Stamps--1860-1870 · Prints--1860-1870

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