Series XIV: Visual Materials, 1806-1983

This series includes photographs, etchings, illustrations from periodicals, lantern slides, color prints, posters, negatives, and one daguerreotype.

The bulk of photographs are individual portraits, company or other group portraits, scenes of activity in various camps (particularly Camp Smith in Peekskill, NY), marching units and parades, and interiors of the 7th Regiment Armory. There are portraits in albums and in boxes. Box 68 contains portraits of most all of the Regiment Colonels along with many others. This series also contains a number of Civil War portraits, both individual and group. The many camp photographs show members of the regiment involved in training activities of all kinds.

Notable events are represented throughout the series. Examples include photographs of the Brooklyn Trolley Strike in 1895 (Box 61, Fol. 1), a photograph of the ticker tape parade for Charles Lindbergh in 1927 (Box 71, Fol. 6), and a photograph album entitled "Thirty-three War Time 1861-3 Photographs."

Items of interest include color plates of military uniforms (1853-1858); French prints of charcoal and pencil sketches; "Life Studies of the Great Army" Etchings (1862-1865); and watercolor "Camp Sites at the Outbreak of the Civil War" (1862). A large extra illustrated volume completed in 1871 focuses on the 1861 participation of the 7th Regiment in the defense of Washington at the beginning of the Civil War.

There are more than 115 posters in this series. Most involve recruitment and solicitation of financial support for World War I and represent the United States and several European countries. There are also a few depicting Civil War battles.