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Original Title (transcribed from print)
Libby Prison, from a photograph taken a few days after the evacuation
Additional Caption (transcribed from print)
The flag flying is the Stars and Stripes and the assembled crowd is gazing upon the prison, filled with Confederate officers and prominent citizens of Richmond.
Publication
Reunion edition of the Richmond Dispatch, June 30th, 1896 : Virginia welcomes the Veterans
Publisher
Richmond Dispatch and The Richmond Times
Date
1987
Page Number
16
Note
Reprint edition. Originally published 1896. A compilation of the daily issues of the Richmond Dispatch and the Richmond Times, for June 30-July 3, 1896, issued for the Confederate Veterans Reunion.
Corporate Name Subject
Libby Prison
Topical Subject
Architecture -- Virginia -- Richmond; Military prisons -- Virginia -- Richmond; Military prisons -- Confederate States of America
Geographic Subject
Richmond (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Original Item Size
8 x 16.5 cm
Genre
prints (visual works)
Local Genre
newspaper; artwork
Type
Still Image; Text
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is in the public domain in the United States and thus is free of any copyright restriction. Acknowledgement of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
Collection
Richmond Nineteenth-Century Print Collection
Source
Original periodical illustration: Libby Prison, from a photograph taken a few days after the evacuation, Reunion edition of the Richmond Dispatch, June 30th, 1896 : Virginia welcomes the Veterans, 1987, p. 16, Richmond, Virginia Maps and Prints Collection, M 190, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
rpr_richmond_times_dispatch_18960630_page16_03.jpg