Signature Gallery

EVNT2A-00196

Oliver H. Perry's note proclaiming his Lake Erie victory: "We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Woodcut with watercolor wash

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1800s, 1812, 1813, 19th Century, America, American, Artifact, Auto Graph, Battle, British, Conflict, Document, Great Lakes, Hand Writing, Heritage, Historic, History, Lake Erie, Manuscript, Maritime, Military, Naval Battle, Navy, North America, Oh Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry, Oliver Perry, Signature, Traditional, United States, Us A, Victory, Vintage, War, War Of 1812

Pioneer name in Register Rock on the Oregon Trail, 1855

Oregon Trail traveler's name carved into Register Cliff by the North Platte River near Guernsey, Wyoming.
Digital photograph

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1800s, 1855, 19th Century, America, American, Artifact, Auto Graph, Camp, Carving, Frontier, Great Plains, Guernsey, Guernsey Wy, Heritage, Historic, Historic Site, History, Mormon Trail, North America, Oregon Trail, Pioneer, Plains, Platte River, Prairie, Register Cliff, Rock, Rock Carving, Settler, Signature, Signature Cliff, Traditional, Trail, United States, Us A, Vintage, West, Western, Wy, Wyoming

Charles Grandison Finney

Charles Grandison Finney, clergyman and president of Oberlin College.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1800s, 19th Century, America, American, Art, Auto Graph, Charles Grandison Finney, Educator, Evangelist, Finney, Heritage, Historic, History, Illustration, Minister, North America, Oberlin, Oberlin College, Ohio, Preacher, Protestant, Reformer, Religion, Religious, Signature, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage