Sketches from army life
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Description
- Title
- Sketches from army life
- Creator
- Blake, Edward D., 1826-1882
- Contributor
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Blake, Edward D.,--1826-1882
United States.--Army.--8th infantry. 1838---Pictorial works
United States.--Army--Military life--Pictorial works - Published / Created
- 1849-1861.
- Abstract
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A volume with drawings attributed to Edward D. Blake that document his military service with the 8th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, 1849-1861.
Drawings include depictions of his quarters and other buildings at various military installations and outposts, which include Las Vegas and Fort Union in New Mexico, Fort Gibson in Oklahoma, and Camp Floyd (later known as Fort Crittenden) in Utah. Other drawings include portrait studies and landscape scenes, including a view of the Rio Grande above El Paso, New Mexico.
Six leaves consist of trompe-l'oeil depictions of sixty calling cards with autographs, primarily from his fellow officers in the United States Army. Many of the autographs include annotations about the military service of the signatories before and during the American Civil War.
- Description
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Edward D. Blake (1826-1882) graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1847, and served during the Mexican War as a Second Lieutenant with the 2nd Infantry Regiment and 8th Infantry Regiment. He continued to serve with the 8th Infantry Regiment and earned the rank of Captain in 1860. In 1861, he resigned his commission and served as a Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General in the Confederate Army as a Commandant of Conscripts. After the American Civil War he was a merchant in Charleston, South Carolina.
Items in the volume were probably not compiled and bound by Blake, which accounts for the transcription error of his name on the title page as "E. V. Blake."
Most versos blank, not digitized.
Purchased from the William Reese Company on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2007. - Extent
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1 volume (25 drawings) :
23.9 x 18.9 cm.
ink, pencil, wash, and watercolor ; - Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- WA MSS S-2597
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Format
- mixed material
- Genre
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Autographs
Drawings - Subject (Geographic)
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Fort Crittenden (Utah)--Pictorial works
Fort Gibson (Okla.)--Pictorial works
Fort Union (N.M.)--Pictorial works
Las Vegas (N.M.)--Pictorial works
Rio Grande--Pictorial works - Subject (Name)
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Blake, Edward D.,--1826-1882
United States.--Army.--8th infantry. 1838---Pictorial works
United States.--Army--Military life--Pictorial works - Subject (Topic)
- Army life--Pictorial works
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Edward D. Blake, Sketches From Army Life. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 7972529
- Object ID (OID)
- 11890158