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LL/105607
A.J. Riddle
1864, 17 August
Grave yard at Andersonville, Georgia Dead men, they tell no tales - but look at this picture and a tale is told that will never be forgotten

Salted paper print
9 x 13 cm (sheet) 18 x 23 (mount)
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Liljenquist Family collection, Call Number/Physical Location: PH - Riddle, no. 6 (AA size) [P&P], Library of Congress Control Number: 2017650853, Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-53825 (digital file from original)
 
Photograph shows cemetery for deceased prisoners at Andersonville Prison that are marked with numbered tombstones (Source: Notes by Sergeant Warren L. Goss of Co. H, 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Regiment, prisoner who aided the photographer at Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Goss, Warren (fl. ca. 1864-1880). Descriptions of A. J. Riddle's photographs)
 
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