{"id":1230,"date":"2010-03-19T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:43:17","slug":"becker-collection-%e2%80%93-drawings-of-the-american-civil-war-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/03\/19\/becker-collection-%e2%80%93-drawings-of-the-american-civil-war-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Becker Collection \u2013 Drawings of the American Civil War Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1229\" style=\"border: 6px solid black\" title=\"becker_collection\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/becker_collection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/becker_collection.jpg 325w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/03\/becker_collection-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a> The <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Becker Collection<\/a> is a great digital project from Boston College that contains over 600 drawings by Joseph Becker and others who worked for <em>Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Weekly<\/em>. The \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/sites\/idesweb.bc.edu.becker\/files\/featured\/slideshow.html?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=550&amp;width=680\" target=\"_blank\">Featured Images<\/a>\u201d slideshow provides a nice introduction to what is available in the collection. These drawings cover a range of Civil War related topics, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=Civil%20War%20AND%20military%20life%20OR%20military%20camp\" target=\"_blank\">camp life<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=Civil%20War%20AND%20military%20life%20OR%20military%20camp\" target=\"_blank\">military ceremonies and discipline<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=Civil%20War%20AND%20panoramas%20OR%20landscapes\" target=\"_blank\">panoramas and landscapes<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=navy%20OR%20armored%20vessels%20OR%20gunboats%20OR%20ships%20OR%20shipwrecks%20OR%20steamboats%20OR%20warships%20OR%20naval&amp;cat=Civil%20War\" target=\"_blank\">ships<\/a>. Other topics include the <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=Great%20Fire%20Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago fire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=political%20cartoons\" target=\"_blank\">political cartoons<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/digitool?action=1&amp;strKeyWords=transatlantic%20cables\" target=\"_blank\">Trans-Atlantic cable<\/a>. Biographies of the artists featured in this collection are <a href=\"http:\/\/idesweb.bc.edu\/becker\/artists\" target=\"_blank\">also available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Becker Collection is a great digital project from Boston College that contains over 600 drawings by Joseph Becker and others who worked for Frank Leslie\u2019s Illustrated Weekly. The \u201cFeatured Images\u201d slideshow provides a nice introduction to what is available in the collection. These drawings cover a range of Civil War related topics, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,156],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-images","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}