Image of an elevated view of the Andersonville prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war-camp in Georgia, with prisoners clustered in groups around tents in the central image; surrounded by twenty-two vignettes including a portrait of Sergeant Leroy Key, Captain Henri Wirz, scenes of prison life, prisoner escapes, and sick and dying prisoners; vignettes are numbered with key in bottom margin. Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by University of Iowa Libraries. "[?] Lithographing Co. Chicago."--text, bottom left margin. "Copyrighted by the Historical Printing Society."--text, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 53.82 x 71.76 cm (21 3/16 x 28 1/4 in.)
Andersonville Prison--Pictorial works Confederate States of America. Army--Prisons--Pictorial works Correctional institutions--Pictorial works Military prisons--Pictorial works United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works Wirz, Henry, 1823?-1865--Pictorial works Lithographs--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
Andersonville (Ga.)
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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