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TITLE: [Washington, D.C. Hooded body of Captain Wirz hanging from the scaffold]
CALL NUMBER: LC-B817- 7755[P&P]
LOT 4181 (corresponding print). Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-cwpb-04197 (digital file from original neg.)
LC-B8171-7755 (b&w film neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
SUMMARY: Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, the execution of Captain Henry Wirz, November 1865.
MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1865 November 10]
CREATOR:
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.
NOTES:
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0858
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Photographer: Alexander Gardner.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4181.
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
SUBJECTS:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Detention facilities.
Wirz, Henry.
Hangings.
Prisons.
United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
FORMAT:
PART OF: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original neg.) cwpb 04197 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.04197
(digital file from intermediary roll copy film) cwp 4a40201
CONTROL #: cwp2003001034/PP
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