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An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag

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Image ID

812968


Item data

Title

An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
American History -- 1860s

Names

Taylor, James E., 1839-1901 (Artist)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1889
Date Issued: 1896

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-186

Subjects

Courage
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- 1860-1869
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Flags -- American -- 1860-1869
Campaigns & battles -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- 1860-1869
Soldiers -- Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- 1860-1869
Crippen, Benjamin, d. 1863

Genres

Conjectural Works

Notes

Content: Written on border: "1898 [i.e. 1896]."
Source Note: Campfire and battlefield : history of the conflicts and campaigns of the great Civil War in United States. (New York : 1896) Johnson, Rossiter (1840-1931), Author.

Physical Description

Halftone photomechanical prints
Extent: 1 print : b ; 22 x 29 cm. (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17613364
Barcode: 33333159319496
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1896

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1889. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1889). An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "An heroic incident--Color Sergeant Benjamin Crippen refuses to surrender the flag" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 13, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ad1e0570-c531-012f-f5f7-58d385a7bc34

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