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Junior artillerists of Philadelphia [membership certificate] [graphic].
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64143
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Creator
Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist.
Contributor
Kennedy & Lucas, printer.
Title
Junior artillerists of Philadelphia [membership certificate] [graphic].
Publisher
Philadelphia: Kennedy & Lucas lithog
Date
[ca. 1829]
Physical Description
1 print: lithograph, hand-colored mounted on paper; 42 x 28 cm. (16.5 x 11 in.) overall.
Description
Certificate containing a scene showing three junior artillerists in uniform and armed with bayonets at a cannon in a field. Two of the militia men lean on the cannon as the third sits on a log in front of them. In the background, tents at the militia campsite are visible and a militia man walks past a stack of barrels. Junior Artillerists formed from the "Young Men's Democratic Society" in 1813 during the War of 1812 and helped to occupy Fort Mifflin. Geyer, was possibly Philadelphia leather dealer William B. Geyer who operated a store at South Third and Lombard streets in the 1840s.
Notes
Issued to William B. Geyer for seven successive years of service in the first Regiment of Artillery first Brigade first Division P[ennsylvania] M[ilitia] on May 5, 1829. Signed by Robt. Cooper, captain.
Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 419
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 613 J 96
Subject
Pennsylvania. Militia.
Militias -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Certificates -- Hand-colored -- 1820-1830.
Location
Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bb 613 J 96
In Collections
Philadelphia on Stone Digital Catalog
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Collections
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