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Title	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Sheet 12-1-2.
Contributors	John P. Morton & Co. (publisher)
Description	Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: man behind tree watches owl perched on boat; title page for Morton & Griswold's "Western Farmer's Almanac 1870" (with scenes of wagon train, implying westward migration, and of a group of men, women, and children harvesting and stacking wheat); boy with dog shoveling snow from sidewalk of urban building with iron fence; title page for "Complete Arithmetic Definitions"; Civil War triptych, with, in foreground, men in uniform tending to wounded men, and in insets, woman weeping and holding hand of uniformed young man wearing drum, and a battle scene with cannons, gun smoke, soldiers, and horses; number 12; boy, seated on log under tree, carving pumpkin into Jack o' lantern, near goat in pen and wagon in barn; man, woman, and two children look at caged wild cats (female lions?); woman, holding baby, looking out window of darkened room (inset) and girl shaking seated man, who is apparently drinking in a saloon.
Subject	Men Women Children Animals Textbooks Wagon trains United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical aspects of war Soldiers Uniforms Battlefields Jack-o-lanterns Zoo animals Intoxication
Date Original	18--?
Object Type	Wood engravings
Related Images	The Western Farmers' Almanac also appears in John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Prints, Sheet 18-2.
Source	12 x 18 in. page in the John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Collection, University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library.
Citation Information	See http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/description/collection/morton#conditions for guidance on citing this item. To cite the digital version, add its Reference URL (found by following the link in the header above the digital file).
Collection	John P. Morton & Co. Woodblock Collection
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/morton/
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library
Format	image/jp2
Ordering Information	For information about the use of these images, contact Gail Gilbert (gail.gilbert@louisville.edu), Margaret M. Bridwell Art Library (http://louisville.edu/library/art/ ), University of Louisville.
Image Number	ULAL Morton Woodblocks 12-1-2 enhanced
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