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91 Cards in this Set
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The Course Of Empire Thomas Cole 1834-36 |
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The Course of Empire: The Savage State Thomas Cole 1834-36 |
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The Course of Empire: Arcadia or The Pastoral State Thomas Cole 1834-36 |
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The Course Of Empire: The Consummation or Culmination of Empire Thomas Cole 1834-36 |
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The Course of empire: The destruction of Empire Thomas Cole 1834-36 |
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The Course of Empire: The desolation of Empire Thomas Cole 1834-36 |
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The Painter's Triumph (The Artist Showing His Work 1839 exhibit) 1838 William Sidney Mount |
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Dance of the Haymakers Mount 1845 |
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The Power of Music (The Force of Music) Mount 1847 |
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Farmer Whetting His Scythe (Haymaking) Mount 1848 |
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California News; News from the Gold Diggings; Reading The Tribune Mount 1850 |
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Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap Bingham 1851 |
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Self Portrait Bingham 1834-35 |
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The Jolly Flatboatmen Bingham 1846 |
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Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground Bingham 1847 |
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The County Election Bingham 1851-52 |
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The County Election (2nd Version) Bingham 1852 |
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The Verdict of the People Bingham 1854-55 |
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Self Portrait Lily Martin Spencer 1822-1902 |
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Fi Fo Fum! Spencer 1858 |
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Domestic Happiness Spencer 1849 |
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This Little Piggy Went To Market Spencer 1857 |
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The Little Navigator Spencer 1854 |
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The Little Sunshade Spencer 1854 |
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The Young Husband's First Marketing Spencer 1854 |
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Young Wife: First Stew Spencer 1854 |
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Peeling Onions Spencer 1852 |
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Shake Hands? Spencer 1854 |
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Kiss Me and You'll Kiss the 'Lasses Spencer 1856 |
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We Must Both Fade (MRS. Fithian) Spencer 1869 |
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Kindred Spirits Durand 1849 |
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In the Woods Durand 1855 |
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Frederick Edwin Church in Beruit 1868 |
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Portrait of Durand Daniel Huntington 1857 |
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Moses Viewing the Promised Land Church 1846 |
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Hooker and Company Journeying Through the Wilderness from Plymouth To Hartford in 1636 Church 1846 |
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Niagara Church 1857 |
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Heart of the Andes Church 1859 |
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Twilight in the Wilderness Church 1860 |
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The Icebergs (The North) Church 1861 |
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Cotopaxi Church 1862 |
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Our Banner in the Sky Church 1861 |
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Studies for cotopaxi |
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A Harvest of Death Timothy O'Sullivan Gettysburg PA July 1863 |
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Field where General Reynolds fell, Battle Field of Gettysburg 1863 O'Sullivan |
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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak Bierstadt 1863 |
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ThenDomes of Yosemite Bierstadt 1867 |
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Domes of the Yosemite Chromolithograph Bierstadt 1870 |
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Sunset in the Yosemite Valley Bierstadt 1868 |
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Yosemite Falls (river View) Watkins 1861 |
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Bridal Veil Fall, Yosemite Watkins 1865-66 |
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Yosemite Valley from "Best General View" Watkins 1865 |
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Yosemite from Mariposa Trail (Yosemite Valley no. 1) Watkins 1865 |
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Grizzly Giant Watkins 1863 |
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News from the War Homer Harper's Weekly June 14 1862 |
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The Army of the Potomac- a Sharpshooter on picket duty Homer Harper's Weekly November 15 1862 |
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The Sharpshooter Homer 1862-63 |
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The Veteran in a New Field Homer 1865 |
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The Greek Slave Powers 1851 |
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Forever Free Edmond Lewis 1867 |
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The Old Arrowmaker and His Daughter Lewis 1872 |
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Osceola Caitlin 1841 |
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The Author Painting a Chief at the Base of the Rocky Mountains Caitlin 1841 |
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Rome, Lone Mother of dead empires,there is a moral of human tales, tis but the same rehearsal of the past, first freedom, then glory, when that fails, wealth, vice and corruption |
Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased |
About destruction of empire |
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Violence and time have crumbled the works of man, and art is again resolving into elemental nature. The gorgeous pageant has passed, the roar of battle has ceased, the multitude has sunk in the dust, the empire is extinct |
about desolation of empire |
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But the triumph of the picture is the negro standing outside the door, out of sight of the main group but certainly not out of hearing.He is an amateur, plays himself and listens critically, at the same time delightedly. We never saw the faculty of listening so exquisitely portrayed as it is here. Every limb, joint, bone, body, hat, boots and all are intent upon the tune. |
Critic from Literary World about the Power of Music |
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Art was the most efficient handmaid of history- in its power to perpetuate a record of events with a clearness second only to that which springs from actual observation. Much that is of great importance to the world would be lost if it were not for art. |
Bingham |
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all our thoughts and actions come from our affections, if we love wit is good we shall think and do what is good. Children are not so much influenced by what we say and do in particular reference to them, as by the general affect of our characters. |
Lydia Maria Child Mother's Book |
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The question the arises why you have not sold many more pictures- it is only because instead of two pictures of your peculiar genre, you have not had twenty. The plain truth is that pictures remarkable for maternal, infantine and feminine expressions in which little else is seen but flesh, white drapery, and fruits and constitute your triumphs according to popular estimation |
Frank Carnes to Spencer 1851 |
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The Mind that we new abroad in those scenes of grandeur and beauty, and which gave them a higher interest in our eyes, has passed from earth, and we see that something of the power and greatness is withdrawn from the sublime mountain tops and the broad forest and the rushing waterfall |
William Cullen Bryant Funeral Oration to Thomas Cole 1848 |
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The groves were god's first temples-ere man learned to hew the shafted lay the architrave and spread the roof above them. ere he framed the lofty vault, to gather and roll back the sound of anthems, in the darkling wood amidst the cool and silence he knelt down and offered to the mightiest solemn thanks and supplication. For his simple heart might not resist |
sonnet on solitude John Keats |
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the continent of waters filled with icy cathedrals where ocean is choir and solitude priest and beauty the moving presence of the lord and church is among them |
Christian Register 1862 on the icebergs |
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polar scenes here are colonized under the hot equator. eternal snow climbs out of the eternal summer. all of earths riches are compacted into one many sided crystal, mr church has condensed the condensation of nature |
Winthrop on heart of the andes |
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the majesty of power in repose |
heart of the andes |
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arcadian levels; llamas may feed there undisturbed by anacondas, no serpent hugs, no scorpion nips, never a mosquito hums |
winthrop on heart of the andes |
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we understand that this is a remarkable sunset the blessed the world in the summer solstice of 1858 |
commentator NAD on twilight in the wilderness |
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solitude reigns over this scene and as the eye turns away from the wilderness below to are upon the brilliant canopy of the sky, the imagination whispers that he who was once..."father of the lights" |
on twilight in the wilderness |
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we must redeem america for all its sinful years since the century began |
emerson on cotopaxi |
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he has sounded fourth the trumpet that shall never call retreat he is sifting out the hearts our men before his judgment seat our God is marching on |
Julia Ward Howe Feb 1862 Battle Hymn Of the Republic |
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The rebels seen in the photo are without shoes. These were always removed from the feet of the dead on account of the pressing need of the survivors.Killed in the frantic efforts to break the steady line of an army of patriots, whose heroism once excelled theirs in motive, they paid with life the price of their treason, and when the wicked strife was finished, found nameless graves, far from home and kindred. |
A Harvest of Death Alex Gardner |
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The dead shown in the photograph were our own men. as though passed away in the act of prayer. or appealing to heaven, the faces of all were place as though cut from marble and as the wind swept across the battlefield it waved the hair and gave the bodies such an appearance of life that a spectator could hardly help thinking they were about to rise and continue the fight |
Text Plate 37 for Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War |
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it is a purely american work, a form of life now rapidly disappearing, a historic landscape, the possible seat of supreme civilization |
Harper's weekly on Lander's peak |
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He who lays his ears to the wild grass may perhaps hear the distant tramp, not of buffalos, but of civilization coming like an army with banners |
The Leader on Lander's Peak |
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upon the paintings foreground plain a city populated by our descendants may rise and in its galleries, this picture may find its resting place |
Albert Bierstadt Pamphlet on lander's peak |
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new heaven and a new earth |
fitz ludlow about yosemite |
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everywhere in it the footprints of god's presence and the tokens of god's power are discernible this fair earth is recognized to be a mighty parable |
John Powell Wonders of the sierra nevada 1881 |
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as specimens of the photographic art they are unequaled. the views are indescribably unique and beautiful. nothing in the way of landscapes can be more impressive |
exhibition review of photographs of yosemite valley by carleton watkins at goupil gallery new york the new york times 1862 |
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we discovered a group of men at the base of the tree |
Philadelphia Photographer December of 1866 |
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i was not a soldier but a camp follower and artist. the above impression struck me as being as near murder as anything I could ever think of in connection with the army |
Homer to Briggs about experience in civil war |
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and the shall beat their swords into plow sharers and their spears into pruning hooks...the veterans returned to the old fields |
Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper 1867 |
