San Angel, Mexico : Quarters of the 1st Penna. Regiment Volunteers, commanded by Col. F. M. Wynkoop

A lithograph of San Angel, Mexico where the First Pennsylvannia Regiment Volunteers were quartered during the American occupation of the city (August 20, 1847-May 30, 1848). The print, credited to L. Schulze, may possibly be based upon an eyewitness location sketch by Private James T. Shannon of the First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, with Schulze being possibly only the lithographer who copied it on stone and added the human figures. The print depicts American troops marching (led by two horsebacked officers and military musicians) down a road that has large buildings on either side and in the distance is a church next to a large bridge. Men, women and children are also represented in the print as onlookers. [See Ben Huseman, "The Occupation: No. 161," in Eyewitness to War?: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War, 1846-1848, Sandweiss, Stewart, and Huseman (Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, 1989), 351-353.]

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Format: images
Format Notes:
Lithograph
Publisher and Date Published: H. Camp
Language: English
Publication Place: Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
Creator:
Schulze, L.
Physical Characteristics: 45 x 64 cm
Collection: The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Special Collections.
Call Number: 2017-529
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