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Title
Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry
Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection

American History -- 1780s-1790s

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1850 - 1880 (Approximate)
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-178
Topics
United States -- 1700-1799
Zane, Betsy, 1769-1823
Fort Henry (W. Va.) -- 1780-1789
Girls -- West Virginia -- 1780-1789
Gunpowder -- 1780-1789
Forts & fortifications
Courage
Hurrying
Genres
Conjectural works
Notes
Source note: Source information not available.
Physical Description
Steel engravings
Extent: 14 x 11 cm (5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
Etching, stipple and engraving.
Foxing on image.
Description
"Near Wheeling, WV." [Clarification: Area platted as town of Zanesburg, and in 1806 incorporated as town of Wheeling.] "Nov. [i.e. September] 1782." "She ran through Indian musket fire to bring a barrel of gunpowder from her brother's house back to the fort defended by the Americans."--written on border.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17613346
Barcode: 33333159314174
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c4de30d0-c530-012f-dbac-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1850: Issued (Approximate)
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1880. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f67f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed February 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f67f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1850 - 1880). Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f67f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry