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Indian mound, National Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss. – Antique Print

Indian mound, National Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss., c1906. — historic photograph
Indian mound, National Military Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss., c1906.. 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 mound stands inside Vicksburg National Cemetery, where rows of Union headstones surround an earthen rise built centuries before the cemetery existed. Native peoples raised such mounds in the Mississippi Valley long before European settlement, and this one was left standing when the grounds were laid out for the soldiers who died during the 1863 siege of Vicksburg. This c1906 glass negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold views of American landmarks to travelers and publishers, so the photograph shows how the site was presented to the public in the early twentieth century.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesG 3808" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019403. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCemeteries. Indians of North America.United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg National Cemetery.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62808

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