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Activities: Author Activities Ambrose Bierce - Selected Archive Items  Back to Ambrose Bierce Activities[3230] Anonymous, Confederate and Union Dead Side by Side in Trenches at Fort Mahone (1865), courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-B8171-3181]. Civil War photograph of the aftermath of the siege of Petersburg. [3320] J. H. E. Partington, Ambrose Bierce (1928), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62-20182]. Partington's painting features Bierce leaning next to a human skull. Bierce's satires often commented on the dark side of nineteenth-century America. [7357] Sarony and Major, View of San Francisco, Taken from the Western Hill at the Foot of Telegraph Hill, Looking toward Ringon Point and Mission Valley [detail] (1851), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZC2-1716]. Less than two years after the Gold Rush began, San Francisco had become a sprawling boom town that drew people from all over the world. [7505] Anonymous, Music in Mexican Isurrecto Camp (1911), courtesy of the Library of Congress [LC-USZ62- 115488]. This photo, of musicians and armed men in a camp during the Mexican Civil War, shows the close relationship between music and politics in the borderlands. |
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