Alternate title: | Jefferson Davis casemate, Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia |
Summary: | Entrance to Jefferson Davis casemate, Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, circa 1951-1970. Caption reads: "Jefferson Davis casemate, Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia. Entrance to the chamber (casemate) in south wall of Fort where Jefferson Davis was imprisoned in May 1865. Later the Confederate president was removed to Carroll Hall in the northwest bastion of the Fort on recommendation of Dr. John J. Craven, Chief Medical Officer, Fort Monroe." Postcard number: 60143. |
Creator: | Miller, Walter H. |
Provider: | Dexter Press |
Walter H. Miller & Company, Inc. |
Century: | 1901-2000 |
Printing place: | North America |
United States of America |
New York |
West Nyack |
Place of origin – Continent: | North America |
Place of origin – Country: | United States of America |
Place of origin – Region: | Virginia |
Place of origin – Settlement: | Williamsburg |
Temporal subject: |
1951-1960
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1961-1970
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Geographical subject – Continent: | North America |
Geographical subject – Country: | United States of America |
Geographical subject – Region: | Virginia |
Geographical subject – District: | Old Point Comfort |
Topical subjects: | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
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Prisons |
Doors & doorways |
Fort Monroe (Va.) |
Forts & fortifications |
Genre: | Postcards |
ArchivesUM location: | Institute of American Deltiology Postcard Collection |
Repository: | National Trust for Historic Preservation Library Collection |
Browse terms: | Architecture, Landscape, Historic Places |
Collection: | National Trust Library Historic Postcard Collection |
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