Collections of  A. F. Bianchi

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Libby Prison, Richmond Virginia

Postcard Credits: Southern Bargin House

The Libby Prison, imprisoned thousands of Union Officers during the Civil War.

The building was dismantled and re-erected in Chicago, in 1898 for an exhibition purpose for the Worlds Fair and was left standing there. This is a lithographic photo.  I am not sure of what year it was taken, sometime prior to 1898.  The postcard is not dated.