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The Moat, Fort Monroe, Va. – Historic Reproduction

The Moat, Fort Monroe, Va., c[1908] — historic photograph
The Moat, Fort Monroe, Va., c[1908]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing 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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The dry moat that rings Fort Monroe, at Old Point Comfort on the tip of the Virginia peninsula, is the feature this view centers on. Its broad, stone-walled ditch surrounds the star-shaped masonry fortress, begun in 1819 to guard the entrance to Hampton Roads and the Chesapeake Bay. The fort never fired in anger against an enemy fleet, but it held Union forces during the Civil War and later housed Jefferson Davis as a prisoner in 1865. This negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled the country around 1900 recording towns, landmarks and military sites for sale as views.

Created / publishedc[1908]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 071091. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsForts & fortifications. Moats.United States--Virginia--Fort Monroe.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-72481

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