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HISTORY WRITTEN WITH
PICK AND SHOVEL Military Buttons, Belt Plates, Badges and other Relics
Excavated from Colonial, Revolutionary, and War of
1812 Camp Sites by the Field Exploration Committee
of The New York Historical Society. by
William L. Calver
and
Reginald P Bolton Illustrated
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Details: "The New York Historical Society, which is one of our oldest organizations, have been pursuing systematic investigations into old sites, Indian and Colonial, and have searched the battlefields and the camping grounds of the armies of the Revolution, with results that have added many items to our country’s historical record." * * * "Starting sometime in the 1880’s a group of 'Weekend Archeologists' began exploring the virgin soil of Inwood, on the northern tip of Manhattan, with pick and shovel. "Often these gentlemen of a Victorian era and dress had no idea what they were looking for. They were however intelligent men, armed with maps, sketches and books, as well as an acute awareness of the area’s historical significance. "They approached their task with great enthusiasm. Acting on tips from local farmers, assisted sometimes by children and often using tools of their own design, these admitted amateurs uncovered archeological treasures that likely would have been lost forever. "The group uncovered Native American burial sites, shell middens, arrowheads, pottery, Hessian huts, cannonballs, military buttons and great piles of broken crockery, the refuse of colonial homesteads." Abundantly illustrated.
A fine addition for your bookshelf!
Condition: Very little wear, address label in the front, some foxing to the endpapers and a couple of smudges to the edge of the text-block, otherwise in very good condition with a solid binding and clean pages.
Note: The letter/number at the end of the title line
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