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[Dr. Hambleton, full lgth, seated, facing slightly left, in prison at Fort Warren, Boston, Mass.] – Antique Print

[Dr. Hambleton, full lgth, seated, facing slightly left, in prison at Fort Warren, Boston, Mass.], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Dr. Hambleton, full lgth, seated, facing slightly left, in prison at Fort Warren, Boston, Mass.], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Boston 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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Step back in time with [Dr. Hambleton, full lgth, seated, facing slightly left, in prison at Fort Warren, Boston, Mass.], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Dr. Hambleton, full lgth, seated, facing slightly left, in prison at Fort Warren, Boston, Mass.]

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The subject is Dr. Hambleton, shown full length and seated, photographed as a prisoner at Fort Warren, the granite fort on Georges Island in Boston Harbor. During the Civil War the fort served as a Union military prison, holding Confederate officers and men captured at sea, including crews from blockade runners and commerce raiders. The caption card gives no date, and its details are recorded as unverified, so the exact circumstances of the sitting remain uncertain. Still, the portrait offers a rare view of a Confederate captive inside a Northern harbor fortress, a reminder of how Boston's coastal defenses were tied to the naval war.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesIllus. in: E. Willis papers, Confederate Cruisers and Blockade Runners. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan907 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-139614

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