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Title
Grant's Cabin
Date Created and/or Issued
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of men, women, and children on a lawn in front of a wooden cabin in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that had served as the headquarters of American Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant in City Point, Virginia, during the siege of Richmond, and was moved to Philadelphia in 1870 before being moved back to Virginia in 1893 (now located in the Petersburg National Battlefield).
"Fairmount Park." "Philadelphia."--text, left and right margins. Title transcribed from item; date approximated by cataloger based on the general history of the cabin.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; mount 10 x 17.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17384
Subject
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Homes and haunts
Historic buildings
Parks
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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