[CIVIL WAR]. KELLER, G.F., artist. SHOBER & CARQUEVILLE, lithographers. Let us Forgive, but not Forget. Andersonville Prison memorial.
Sale 1095 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, Featuring Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana & Historical Documents
Day 1 Lots 1-403
Nov 3, 2022
10:00AM ET
Day 2 Lots 404-634
Nov 4, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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[CIVIL WAR]. KELLER, G.F., artist. SHOBER & CARQUEVILLE, lithographers. Let us Forgive, but not Forget. Andersonville Prison memorial.
Lithograph, 1884, image approx. 25 x 19 3/8 in. (visible 27 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. sheet), on wove paper, some brown spotting, framed to 29 1/2 x 21 1/2 in., not examined out of frame.
A birds-eye-view of the notorious Confederate prison Andersonville, with areas and key figures labled, with a short description of each below. Surrounded also by six vignettes of former prisoners with accounts of their suffering. The print, by an artist noted to be a GAR member, is "Dedicated to my Fellow Survivors and to all Sons of Veterans, in Memory of 14,000 Martyrs who perished in Andreson Ville Priosn [and] in Stockade and Hospital."
Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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