The Sibley tent was invented by the American military officer Henry Hopkins Sibley and patented in 1856. Of conical design, it stands about 12 feet (3...
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design of the Sibley tent. He also invented the Sibley stove (also known as the Sibley tent stove), to heat the tent. The Army used tent stoves of this...
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pyramid-shaped, so there was plenty of headroom over most of the tent. A Sibley tent (bell tent) had a circular floor plan some 10 ft to 15 ft across, a single...
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resistant, and flame retardant. A version of the bell tent, the sibley tent was invented by Henry Hopkins Sibley, who had studied the Native American tipi during...
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Tipi (redirect from Indian tent)
fifty of these tents, which would accommodate five hundred persons, make a picturesque appearance. Under the name of the "Sibley tent" it is now in use...
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continues. Kittredge, "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" (Sheet music). Billings, Hardtack & Coffee, p. 192: "Stockaded Sibley Tent"—illustration by Charles...
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Carpenter Gothic, roundhouse, stilt house Nomadic structures – Yaranga, bender tent Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home Underground...
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of hastening his clean-up operations. Around 80 men were kept in two Sibley tents unfed overnight. In addition, Connell had the men's bolos and the stored...
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Picayune reported that "the capital of Kentucky [is] now being located in a Sibley tent." Governor Johnson, despite his presumptive official position, his age...
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African American Union Army teamsters sitting on the sunny side of a Sibley tent. The painting is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-(De...
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