LIBBY PRISON. Stereoscopic Views in Richmond and Vicinity. No. 3141. "Southern Scenes in the Stereoscope"
Richmond VA: Selden & Co. Publishers of Photograph and Stereocopic Views No. 918 [mss cancel] Main Street, (1865). Ca mid-1860s. Image with E & H T Anthony 1865 copyright notice printed underneath. Verso with printed pale violet title label affixed. View: 3-1/8" x 6-5/16". Card: 3-5/16" x 7". Flat mount, lemon yellow, square corners. "Photographic History" printed to recto left side; "The War of the Union" printed to recto right side. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Light wear & soiling. Excellent tonality & clear detail to photograph. A VG - VG+ example. Item #52312
"Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days Battles (in which nearly 16,000 Union men and officers had been killed, wounded, or captured between June 25 and July 1 alone) and other conflicts of the Union's Peninsular campaign to take Richmond and end the war only a year after it had begun. As the conflict wore on the prison gained an infamous reputation for the overcrowded and harsh conditions. Prisoners suffered high mortality from disease and malnutrition. By 1863, one thousand prisoners were crowded into large open rooms on two floors, with open, barred windows leaving them exposed to weather and temperature extremes." [Wiki]
Photographer name from an LoC record [ppmsca 41823] depicting a different image of Libbly Prison, also published by Selden.
Price: $195.00