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Large collection of relics from Andersonville Prison Camp, labels illegible

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0970 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 carte de visite 10.1 x 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Imprint on recto "Brady & Co. Washington." Graphite inscription on verso "**Book" "A display of relics from the Andersonville prison camp. The top round piece is a checker board. Just above the lower shelf is a piece of the 'Andersonville dead line,' at the bottom is a mailbox flanked by 2 plates." Photographers imprint on verso: "M. B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries. No 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington, D.C., & New York."

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