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Colonel Harney at Cerro Gordo

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Image ID

809178


Item data

Title

Colonel Harney at Cerro Gordo

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
American History -- 1840s

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1847

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-184

Subjects

United States -- 1840-1849
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861
Cerro Gordo, Battle of, Mexico, 1847
Campaigns & battles -- Mexico -- Cerro Gordo -- 1840-1849
Harney, William S. (William Selby), 1800-1889
Military personnel -- American -- Mexico -- Cerro Gordo -- 1840-1849

Genres

Prints

Notes

Content: Printed on border: "69" "z4." Includes additional text.
Source Note: Pictorial history of America : embracing both the northern and southern portions of the New World. (Hartford : House Brown, 1847) Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) (1793-1860), Author.

Physical Description

Wood engravings
Extent: 1 print : b ; 19 x 14 cm. (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17168667
Barcode: 33333159317375
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 6d417030-c531-012f-43e3-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1847

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Colonel Harney at Cerro Gordo" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1847. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6d417030-c531-012f-43e3-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1847). Colonel Harney at Cerro Gordo Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6d417030-c531-012f-43e3-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Colonel Harney at Cerro Gordo" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6d417030-c531-012f-43e3-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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