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Bird’s eye view of Confederate prison pen, at Salisbury, N. C. Taken in 1864

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Title: Bird’s eye view of Confederate prison pen, at Salisbury, N. C. Taken in 1864
Creator: J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1886
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of an elevated view of the Confederate prison at Salisbury, North Carolina during the American Civil War showing railroad and several buildings inside the fenced prison complex; numbered key to buildings in lower margin.
"J.H. Bufford's Sons Lith., Boston, New York & Chicago."--text, bottom left margin. "Copyright 1886 by C. A. Kraus."--text, bottom right margin. "1, Cotton Factory. 2, Old Blacksmith Shop, Used as a Guard House and afterward as Dead House. 3, Old Well. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, Brick Houses used for Officers Prisons. 10, Confederate Headquarters. 11, Soup House. 12, Hole from which Prisoners tunnelled [sic] and escaped."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.44 x 97.16 cm (28 1/8 x 38 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_MIL_000733
383299
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1017
Language: English
Subject: Military prisons--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Military
Large Size
American Civil War
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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