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[Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument, Augusta, Ga.] – Historic Print

[Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument, Augusta, Ga.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument, Augusta, Ga.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument, Augusta, Ga.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument, Augusta, Ga.]

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The picture shows the Albion Hotel alongside a Confederate monument in Augusta, Georgia, a pairing that makes the streetscape a record of how the town remembered the Civil War. Southern communities raised many such obelisks and memorials in the decades after 1865, often in the 1880s through the early 1900s, when the Lost Cause movement shaped public commemoration. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that photographed American towns and landmarks for sale to the public, made the image around 1900 to 1910 as a large glass plate negative. Its catalog number and the gift record from the State Historical Society of Colorado in 1949 trace its later path into the Library of Congress collection.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 721 G" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 033100. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsObelisks. Monuments & memorials. Hotels. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Georgia--Augusta.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66440

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