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Confederate monument, King George – Antique Photo Print

Confederate monument, King George, [1921] — historic photograph
Confederate monument, King George, [1921]. Historic photograph from the National Photo 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: Confederate monument, King George, 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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This glass negative records a Confederate monument in King George, a small Virginia county on the Northern Neck, as it appeared around 1921. The National Photo Company, a Washington firm that photographed American streets, buildings and public life in the early twentieth century, made the image. Monuments like this one went up across the South in the decades after Reconstruction, often through local Confederate memorial groups, and they shaped how many communities remembered the war. The negative shows streaks and blemishes from the natural deterioration of its original coating, so some fine detail is softened.

Created / published[1921]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
GenreGlass negatives
NotesTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch one.
SourceLibrary of Congress, National Photo Company Collection
Original scan5,394 × 4,386 px · prints to 18 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-NPC-233669

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