The Union prison camp at "Belle Isle," Richmond, Va.
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Image Details
Source:
Library of Congress
Collection:
Civil War
Date:
between 1862 and 1865
Region:
Richmond, Virginia
(inherited from collection)
Description:
1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 10 x 18 cm. | Stereograph showing Maj. Thomas P. Turner, Commandant of the "Libby Prison," dressed in gray, with felt hat on, standing on hill overlooking the Confederate prison encampment on Belle Isle in the James River . Confederate guard tents are near the river in the distance. Subjects: rivers, confederate, history, tents, soldiers, civil war, stereographs, richmond, detention facilities, richmond (va.), prisons, military facilities, belle isle (prison), albumen prints, united states, virginia Locations: united states, richmond, virginia Notes: 19308 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. Caption continues: The original negative of this view destroyed by fire on the 3rd of April 1865. Attributed to Charles R. Rees based on similar photograph in the collection of the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia. Copyright Nov. 14, 1882 stamped on verso. Copyright by James Blair. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
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