Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry
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808852
Item data
Title
Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
American History -- 1780s-1790s
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1850 - 1880 (Approximate)
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC AME-178
Subjects
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
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.
Abstract
"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.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17613346
Barcode: 33333159314174
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c4de30d0-c530-012f-dbac-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1850
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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. "Elizabeth Zane at Fort Henry" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1850 - 1880. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c4de30d0-c530-012f-dbac-58d385a7bc34
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/c4de30d0-c530-012f-dbac-58d385a7bc34
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 November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c4de30d0-c530-012f-dbac-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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