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1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [watercolor. Two horizons with house]

GLC02673.23

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [pencil. unfinished sketch for waterfall]

GLC02673.24

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [pencil and watercolor in blue. House on tree lined street]

A striking image, done entirely in different shades of blue. The house cannot be identified from any other material --including photographs of the Bachelder home-- in the collection.

GLC02673.25

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [pencil and watercolor. Cemetery cross]

cross with measurements

GLC02673.26

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [pencil. horse rider watching covered wagon]

unfinished sketch in oval. Frontier flavor

GLC02673.27

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [watercolor. Horses and riders outside a rough house with mountains in the background]

Hall & Spaulding. Frontier flavor

GLC02673.28

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [watercolor. panoramic view of #28 showing American flag and outbuildings]

Hall & Spaulding. note on verso. Frontier flavor

GLC02673.29

1815-1860

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [pencil and brown watercolor. Waterfall with fir tree and visitors]

with unfinished pencil sketch of a woman in bed on verso

GLC02673.30

1815-1860

Title: [wood engraving. Charge of the 40th N.Y. (Col. Egan) at the Devil's Den. Gettysburg, July 2d. 1863]

Wood engraving. "Richardson, sc." This engraving appears to be an angle similar to JBB's drawing of the Devil's Den in the Gettysburg sketchbook. GLC# 2670 leaf 5.

GLC02673.31

1815-1860

Title: [wood engraving. 9th Mass. (Bigelow's) Battery. Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. ]

"Hold this position at all hazards." Major M'Gilvery. Wood engraving, "Richardson."

GLC02673.32

1815-1860

Title: [Military or soldier's decorative alphabet with Civil War scenes within each letter. Wood engraving. 12 letters]

GLC02673.33

1815-1860

Title: [Wood engraving of Civil War battle in arch form]

signed "T.W." in left margin. Possibly a printer's proof

GLC02673.34

1815-1860

Pamphlet

Title: [printed sheet on Gettysburg National Military Park cemetery]

Photographs of memorials

GLC02673.35

1877-1900

Photograph

Title: [Bachelder as old man and his wife posed before boulders]

Taken before 1892. Number 498

GLC02673.37

1884

Kimball, W.G., fl. 1884

Photograph

Title: [Cabinet card of Alice Bachelder Stevens]

Inscribed on verso: with much love, from Alice B.S. 1884"

GLC02673.38

7 April 1892

Chickering, Elmer, fl. 1892

Photograph

Title: [Cabinet card of William C. Badger]

Inscribed on verso: "Compliments of Wm. C. Badger. Boston Mass. Apr. 7 1892".

GLC02673.39

1877-1900

Piper, S.

Photograph

Title: [Cabinet card of Thomas Stevens]

On verso: Thomas Stevens, Nottingham Hill

GLC02673.40

1877-1900

Photograph

Title: [Group portrait]

Group portrait (with two lithographs in background, one, a battle scene). Identified on verso as Great Grandma Stevens; GrandPa Stevens; Uncle Edmund, his son; Cousin Charlotte, daughter of Edmund. In the old Parlor at Nottingham, N.H.

GLC02673.41