Raynors HCA 2018-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/20/2018
Albumen photograph of the infamous Libby Prison from a Mathew Brady glass negative, on Taylor & Huntington mount from their War for the Union Photographic History series. Measures 9" x 11" overall with a decorative border and caption that reads: "This is a view of the infamous Libby Prison, where so many of our Union soldiers suffered and starved during the war. It would take volumes to tell the story of Libby Prison. It was an old tobacco warehouse which the Rebels converted into a prison for Union soldiers. There is not a Grand Army Post through all our land but what has among its members some comrade who knows from experience just what a 'hell hole' this place was." A list of other available prints is printed on the back. Mount has some light age, as does the albumen in the upper field. Overall fine.
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