2020-09 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2020
Group of three photographs of Libby Prison, includes two albumen photographs 6-1/2"x4-1/2" while the prison was located in Chicago...plus; Stereoview of man escaping from fireplace towards the tunnel. Fine condition. Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It gained an infamous reputation for the overcrowded and harsh conditions under which officer prisoners from the Union Army were kept. Prisoners suffered from disease, malnutrition and a high mortality rate. By 1863, one thousand prisoners were crowded into large open rooms on two floors, with open, barred windows leaving them exposed to weather and temperature extremes. The building was built before the war as a food warehouse. The structure was moved to Chicago in 1889 to serve as a war museum. It was dismantled in 1899, with its pieces sold as souvenirs.
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