Creator |
Levy & Cohen, photographer. |
Contributor |
Levy, Cornelius, 1842-1865, photographer. |
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Cohen, Leon Solis, 1840-1884, photographer. |
Title |
Libby Prison [graphic] : The only view of this notorious prison made during the Rebellion. Dick Turner stands in the foreground. |
Publisher |
[Philadelphia] : [Levy & Cohen] |
Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1865 |
Date |
1865 |
Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 7 x 11 cm (2.5 x 4 in.) (carte de visite format) |
Description |
Exterior view of the notoriously inhumane Confederate Prison, previously a warehouse. Depicts Turner, the former commandant
of the prison, standing with a small group of white people including a child, in front of rows of tents. African Americans
look on from a nearby hill.
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Is part of |
Views of the Rebel Capital and Its Environs |
Notes |
Title from label mounted on verso. |
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Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865, by Levy & Cohen in the Clerk's Office,
of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
|
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Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980. |
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Forms part of small Civil War Photograph Collection |
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Description revised 2021. |
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Access points revised 2021. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
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Biographical / historical note |
Levy & Cohen was a partnership between two Jewish Philadelphia photographers who in 1865 published a series of views of occupied
Richmond at the end of the Civil War. The partnership dissolved in 1865 after the unexpected death of Cornelius Levy.
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Subject |
Turner, Dick. |
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Libby Prison. |
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African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond. |
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Prisons -- Virginia -- Richmond. |
Geographic subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. |
Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Cartes-de-viste -- 1860-1870. |
Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| small Civil War photo collection - cdvs - Levy & Cohen [P.8532.2] |
Accession number |
P.8532.2 |