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Raphael Semmes monument, Mobile, Ala. – Vintage Print

Raphael Semmes monument, Mobile, Ala., c1906. — historic photograph
Raphael Semmes monument, Mobile, Ala., c1906.. Historic photograph from the Mobile 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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Few Confederate figures received a monument as prominent as this one of Raphael Semmes, the naval officer who commanded the raider CSS *Alabama* during the Civil War. Semmes, born in Maryland in 1809, spent his last years in Mobile, where he died in 1877, and the statue honors his service there. This glass negative, made around 1906, comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, which produced travel views and postcards of American towns and landmarks. Its many monument photographs show how Southern cities memorialized the war in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3669" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019453. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsSemmes, Raphael,--1809-1877--Statues. Sculpture. Monuments & memorials. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.United States--Alabama--Mobile.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan806 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62854

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