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[Moat and ramparts, Fort Monroe, Va.] – Vintage Print

[Moat and ramparts, Fort Monroe, Va.], [between 1905 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Moat and ramparts, Fort Monroe, Va.], [between 1905 and 1920]. 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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A window into the past: [Moat and ramparts, Fort Monroe, Va.], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Moat and ramparts, Fort Monroe, Va.]

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Few Civil War-era forts still show their original defenses as clearly as Fort Monroe does here, with its broad moat and sloping earthen ramparts at Old Point Comfort on Virginia's Chesapeake coast. Construction began in 1819 on a large star-shaped masonry fort that stayed under Union control throughout the Civil War, and it held Jefferson Davis as a prisoner after 1865. This glass negative came from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers documented American landscapes and landmarks in the early twentieth century, roughly between 1905 and 1920.

Created / published[between 1905 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. 3907" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 036789. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsForts & fortifications. Moats.United States--Virginia--Fort Monroe.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-68129

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