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Essex County Court House and Confederate monument, Tappahannock, Va. – Historic Print

Essex County Court House and Confederate monument, Tappahannock, Va., 1935 — historic photograph
Essex County Court House and Confederate monument, Tappahannock, Va., 1935. Historic photograph from the Courthouses 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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Essex County Court House and Confederate monument, Tappahannock, Va.

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Tappahannock, the seat of Essex County on Virginia's Rappahannock River, is the setting for this 1935 view of the county courthouse with a Confederate monument on the grounds. Many Southern towns placed such memorials at their courthouses in the decades after the Civil War, often through local chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, so the pairing reflects how public civic space was used to honor the Confederacy. The photograph belongs to a series of courthouse images made by the Dunlop Society, and its caption card is old and not fully verified, so details beyond the basic identification should be checked against other sources.

Created / published1935
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesDunlop Society Court Houses. Reference copy may be in County Court Houses of the United States microfiche 168 (B10). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Courthouses; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,139 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-147974

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