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Creator Childs, George William, 1829-1894.
Contributor Louderbach, James W., engraver.
Childs, George William, 1829-1894, publisher.
Title Prison life in the tobacco warehouse at Richmond. / By a Ball's Bluff prisoner, Lieut. Wm. C. Harris, of Col. Baker's California Regiment. Contents. ... Preface. ...Philadelphia, March 25, 1862. Complete in one volume, price 50 cts., or handsomely bound in cloth, 75 cts.
Publisher [Philadelphia, Pa.] : Published by George W. Childs, 628 and 630 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1862
Date [1862]
Physical Description 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 34 x 18 cm
Notes A publisher's advertisement.
Engraved illustration at head, signed "Lauderbach sc.", has caption: Our last day in the Richmond Tobacco Warehouse Prison.
Printed area measures 29.8 x 14.7 cm.
Library Company has both issues, in printed paper wrapper for 50 cents, and in publisher's cloth for 75 cents.
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Subject Harris, William C. Prison-life in the tobacco warehouse at Richmond.
Liggon's Tobacco Warehouse Prison (Richmond, Va.) -- Pictorial works.
Publishers and publishing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Publishing -- Personal narratives.
Genre Broadsides.
Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1862.
Relief prints.
Illustrator Louderbach, James W., engraver.
Printer Childs, George William, 1829-1894, publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts| Rare| sm # Am 1862 Childs 9982.F.99 (McAllister)
Accession number 9982.F.99 (McAllister)

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