Confederate Monument and Skye Hotel, Bennettsville, S.C. – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Confederate Monument and Skye Hotel, Bennettsville, S.C.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Confederate Monument and Skye Hotel, Bennettsville, S.C.
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A Confederate monument stands in the foreground of this c1907 view of Bennettsville, South Carolina, with the Skye Hotel rising behind it, so the picture places a memorial to the Civil War dead beside an ordinary commercial building on the town's main street. Such monuments went up across the South in the early twentieth century, often in the years after Reconstruction ended and when local groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy led fundraising for them. The print was copyrighted by J.E. Spencer, a photographer whose work documents small-town life in the period, and its juxtaposition of civic memory and daily business is worth noticing.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by J.E. Spencer. |
| Subjects | Monuments & memorials--South Carolina--Bennettsville--1900-1910. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Monuments. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,028 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-167361 |
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