The Journal of Alfred Ely was published in New York in 1862., The illustration, signed A.H. Jocelyn N.Y., bears the caption: The prison at Richmond., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
D. Appleton and Company
Date
[1862]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare #Am 1862 D Apple (2)5786.F.51d (McAllister)
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., Title from label mounted on verso., 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., Gift of Elinor Solis-Cohen, 1980., Forms part of small Civil War Photograph Collection, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., 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., 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.
Creator
Levy & Cohen, photographer
Date
1865
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department small Civil War photo collection - cdvs - Levy & Cohen [P.8532.2]
Printed on yellow paper., The illustration shows the steamer Wawaset., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Date
[between 1861 and 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare 2# Am 1861 Down (6)5777.F.1 (McAllister)
"Words and music by Geo. F. Root."--p. [3], Publisher's plate #420-3., With advertisement for Mason & Hamlin cabinet organs and additional music on p. [2]; advertisement for Root's The musical curriculum on p. [6]; advertising matter varies with other copies., For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB) for the refrain., First line of text: In the prison cell I sit., First line of refrain: Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching., T.p. has title set within an oval, surrounded by various scenes of war illustrating 5 other Civil War song titles; signed: Copcutt -Williams sc., Library Company copy inscribed: Compliments of A.D., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Creator
Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895, cmp
Date
c1864
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare *Sheet Music Tramp 8107.F.25
View of Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Va. and showing Union prisoners in front of tents and a large building. In the foreground are six tents, one labeled "C.S.A." Men, including one with his arm in a sling, stand and walk between the tents. In the background is the brick, three-story prison building, converted from a grocery warehouse and with a sign that reads, "Libby & Sons Ship Chandlers & Grocers." A group of men stand in front of the building. In the left, men in uniform stand in formation. Libby Prison held Union officers and operated from March 1862 until April 1865. The overcrowded prison had harsh conditions and a high mortality rate., Title from the item., Date from copyright statement: Copyright 1889 by Charles Pollock., Gift of David Doret, 2011.
Date
1889
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *GC - Civil War - Prisons [P.2011.45.6]
