Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia

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Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia

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Alexander Gardner

American Photographer · 1821–1882

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As an idealistic young reporter and newspaper editor in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Gardner dreamed of forming a semi-socialistic colony somewhere in what he thought of as the unspoiled wilderness of America. He selected a place in Iowa, but even though he sent family and friends to live there, Gardner never joined them. Instead, when he disembarked in New York he remained. The celebrated America

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Date: April 1864
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of Libby Prison, once used by the Confederate Army to hold Union prisoners of war, after its surrender to the Union Army. The brick building, the lower half of which is painted white, sits along the James River. Crowds of men and women stand in the dirt yard and crowd around one of the entrances. Tents are visible in the yard on both sides of the image.

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