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Original Title (transcribed from print)
Encampment of Union prisoners at Belle Isle, Richmond, Virginia
Additional Caption (transcribed from print)
From a sketch by Captain Harry E. Wrigley, Topographical Engineers.
Publication
Harper's Weekly
Publisher
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Date
10-17-1863
Page Number
668
Corporate Name Subject
Belle Isle (Prison); Confederate States of America. Army -- Prisons
Topical Subject
Prisoner-of-war camps -- Virginia -- Richmond; Military prisons -- Virginia -- Richmond; Military prisons -- Confederate States of America
Geographic Subject
Belle Isle (Va.); Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons; Richmond (Va.)
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Original Item Size
15 x 24 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: Encampment of Union prisoners at Belle Isle, Richmond, Virginia, Harper's Weekly, Oct. 17, 1863, p. 668, Richmond, Virginia Maps and Prints Collection, M 190, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
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