- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Andersonville Prison photographs, 1864
- Creator:
- Riddle, A. J., 1829-1897
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Subject:
- Andersonville Prison
Confederate States of America. Army
Military prisons--Georgia--Photographs
Andersonville (Ga.)--Photographs - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The collection consists of seven photographs of Andersonville Prison originally taken by photographer A. J. Riddle on August 17, 1864, when there were 53,000 Union prisoners in the stockade. Theodore Wiseman secured the original views in 1865, from a chest in Capt. Wirz's home in Andersonville, Georgia. In 1883, he copyrighted the photos and sold sets to the public. The photos depict various views of the prison yard including a bird's eye view of the prison yard and a burying party in the graveyard north of the yard. The collection also includes a print of a map of the prison taken from the SANITARY BULLETIN (v. 1, No. 21).
Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online as part of America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_harg1756-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg1756-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Andersonville Prison photographs, MS 1756. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Original Collection:
- Andersonville Prison photographs, MS 1756. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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