Libby Prison War Museum Catalogue and Program (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Association, Libby Prison War Museum

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333695160 ISBN 13 : 9781333695163

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the Libby Prison War Museum through its official catalogue and program. This book presents the museum’s exhibit highlights, detailing a rich collection of Confederate relics, rare manuscripts, photographs, and artifacts collected from Libby Prison and other Civil War sites. It offers insight into the museum’s layout, key rooms, and notable items that bring Civil War history to life.

From reception rooms and wall displays to the famed Appomattox Table and a thorough catalog of case items, the volume reveals how the collection is organized and presented to visitors. It also notes the growing, ever-expanding display of relics and the care taken to preserve these historical pieces for future generations.

• Accounts of major exhibits, rooms, and display strategies in a historic museum setting.


• Descriptive listings of manuscripts, photographs, flags, weapons, and other Civil War artifacts.


• Context for the most complete collection of Confederate relics on display at the time.


• Historical notes on notable items like the Appomattox Table and Libby Prison ties.

Ideal for readers of Civil War history, museum studies, and anyone curious about how a major war collection is curated and presented.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Libby Prison from Richmond, Va., to Chicago was a project never before equaled in the history of building moving, and one that will not be surpassed for years to come. This famous old structure as a Confederate prison is too well known to need the repetition of its history, and it is enough to state that it was the palace prison of the South, and during the late war it held more than 30,000 Union officers and enlisted men as prisoners. The project of removing Libby to Chicago was first thought of by a well known Chicago business man, who interested a syndicate of his business associates and as a result they visited Richmond in the latter part of 1888 and took a thorough look over the ground. Then it was decided to purchase; negotiations were closed through Rawlings Rose and the syndicate, with Mr. W. H. Gray as treasurer, commenced to make arrangements for its removal. Mr. Louis M. Hallwell, a well known and experienced Philadelphia architect, was engaged to work on the spot. He made all of the working plans for taking the structure apart, shipping it to the cars, and rebuilding it in Chicago. The work commenced in December, 18S8, and as the building was taken apart each board, beam, timber and block of stone was numbered or lettered in such a manner that there was not the least trouble about placing these parts correctly together again in rebuilding. The contract for hauling the matter was given to the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad Company, which kept box cars on the York River side track near the building and as soon as a carload was ready for shipment it was sealed and sent on its way to Chicago. This required 132 twenty-ton cars. In the meantime the massive stone wall had been erected on the Wabash A venue front of the Chicago lot, and after the completion of this the re-erection of Libby Prison commenced and was completed early in September. The museum was o
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Sir Antonio Moro sthree-quarter life portrait of Christopher Columbus, recently purchased by Charles F. Gunther and plac dtemporarily in the Libby Prison War Museum, Chicago, of which Mr. Gunther is President, was executed about 1543 or 1545 from two miniatures orignally done for the Court of Spain. This portrait was done at this court for Margaret, regent of the Netherlands, and the great navigator undoubtedly sat for these miniatures from which it v. executed. The painting will be among the exhibits at the Columbian Exposition. The fat that it was executed for royalty is proven by the golden crown that surmounts and honors the frame. The execution of the portrait is in the style of the old masters, -and Rembrandt, and is remarkable for its colouring and life-like appearance. The frame spoken of above, which was made at the same time as the portrait, is fully as interesting as the canvas. It is fashioned with superb skill and is a grand mass of intricate carving. It is gilded and on the top there is the coat-of-arms and quarterings of Columbus, the oyster shells, the anchor and the sword. Unusual importance and value is attached to this portrait from the fact that Moro was one of the masters of his time, and that so great and talented an admirer as Washington I rving, after searching throughout Europe, and also during his long residence in Spain as United States Minister to that court, and known to be a great lover of Spanish history and tradition, on which he has written many volumes, settled upon this picture and placed it as a frontispiece in his revised life (1850) of Christopher Columbus. livings search for a portrait for this purpose was by no means a short one. He had access to all the public and private libraries of the kingdom, which were freely opened to him, and it was Moro sfamous work that honored that of I rving. The great author, in speaking
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333695160
• ISBN 13: 9781333695163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 47
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