[A house, lawn, and garden, with seven ducks swimming in an adjacent pond]

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Title: [A house, lawn, and garden, with seven ducks swimming in an adjacent pond]
Date: Undated
Creator: Goodwin, Fairfield Israel, ca. 1833-1918.
Notes: "Sweet Home."; F[airfield] Goodwin AMsS., [undated]. Pontiac, Michigan, page 1. From a collection of poems, essays and drawings created by a Union soldier from Michigan during the Civil War. Goodwin was part of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery (Taylor's Chicago Battery) at the outbreak of the Civil War and later joined the 8th Michigan Cavalry.
Names and Subjects: Animals--Pictorial works.; Birds--1860-1870.; Birds--Pictorial works.; Ducks--1860-1870.; Dwellings--1860-1870.; Gardens--1860-1870.; Houses--1860-1870.; Lawns--1860-1870.; Pencil drawing--19th century.; Plants--1860-1870.; Ponds.; Sketches--1860-1870.; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war.; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works.; Manuscripts shelf.
Genre: Drawings (visual works); Pencil drawings.; Poems.
Collection Title: Fairfield Goodwin papers
Collection Creator: Goodwin, Fairfield Israel, ca. 1833-1918.
Project Name: Illustrated Manuscripts Project
ID: 4715
Repository: William L. Clements Library
Date Added/Updated: 2018-04-10 15:35:47

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Image Size: 6704 x 5774
File Size: 2 MB
Record: 4715
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