Bird's-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east – Antique Map Print
(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: Bird's-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Bird's-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east
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From a southeast vantage point, this 1890 color lithograph by J.W. Morton Jr. shows the stockade at Andersonville, the Confederate prison in southwest Georgia where Union soldiers were held during the last year of the Civil War. Opened in early 1864, the camp was built for about 10,000 men but at its peak held many more, and disease, exposure and malnutrition killed roughly 13,000 prisoners before it closed in 1865. Morton's aerial perspective, a popular format for battlefield and site views at the time, gives a sense of how the enclosure dominated the landscape. The print was copyrighted in 1890, a quarter century after the events it depicts.
| Created / published | c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1890. |
| Notes | 28082 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1890 by J.W. Morton, Jr. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Andersonville Prison--1860-1870. Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,153 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224047 |
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