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The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Topic: MemoryTopic: ProgressTopic: PeopleTopic: PowerTopic: Empire
Topic: Memory: Civil War Memory and American Nostalgia
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Text 1. Winslow Homer
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Text 2. Hamlin Garland
Text 3. Joel Chandler Harris
Text 4. Jane Addams
Text 5. Robert G. Ingersoll
Text 6. Re-Union and the Railroad
Text 7. Visions of the West
Text 8. Owen Wister

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1.  Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, oil on canvas, 1865 (PDF) Discussing Art
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The Veteran in a New Field, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Winslow Homer
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Winslow Homer's Civil War drawings, overview and slideshow, from the Smithsonian Institution



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Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865. Oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 38 1/8 in. (61.3 x 96.9 cm). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967: 67.187.131. Permission pending.

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