Bird's-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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: Bird's-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bird's-eye view of Andersonville Prison from the south-east
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Drawn from a raised vantage point to the south-east, this color lithograph shows the whole stockade at Andersonville, the Confederate prison camp in southwest Georgia where Union soldiers were held in 1864 and 1865. The camp's crowded enclosure, its interior layout, and the surrounding landscape are all laid out at once, which gives a sense of the scale of the site. The print was issued in 1890, a generation after the war, when Andersonville had become a symbol of the suffering of Union prisoners and of the debate over how the war should be remembered.
| Created / published | c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1890. |
| Notes | 28082 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1890 by J.W. Morton, Jr. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Andersonville Prison--1860-1870. Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,249 × 3,071 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224047 |
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