Images Dated 5th December 2011

Schwatkas discovery of Franklin expedition grave, 1880

Grave of Franklin Expedition member Lt. John Irving found by Schwatka's American search party in Greenland, 1880.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Battle of Mobile Bay, Civil War, 1864

Farragut's flagship USS "Hartford" colliding with the ironclad CSS "Tennessee" to secure Mobile Bay, 1864.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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General Robert E. Lee surrendering the Confederate army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration from eyewitness accounts

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