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First hand : Civil War era drawings from the Becker collection / edited by Judith Bookbinder and Sheila Gallagher

Preface / Nancy Netzer -- Introduction / Sheila Gallagher and Judith Bookbinder -- An artist's interesting recollections of Leslie's weekly / Joseph Becker -- Civil War drawings as art / Judith ...
Oregonian

The art of war: an exhibit of original Civil War-era drawings at Reed College

"First Hand," an exhibition of more than 140 original Civil War-era drawings on view at Reed College's Cooley Gallery, overflows with historical insight. Not only do the images, drawn from the Becker ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Civil War Cartoonist Created the Modern Image of Santa Claus as Union Propaganda

Cartoonist Thomas Nast first drew Santa Claus in January 1863, for Harper's Weekly. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929, via Metropolitan Museum of Art under CC 1.0 You could call it the face that ...