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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:

Wet collodion negatives.

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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