American Historical Ephemera & Photography

9 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. letterpress broadside (few creases, minor darkening and wear with few tears/chips to edges and corners, and modern pencil marks). Broadside verso features an advertisement for the Mississippi Valley Route, offering trips between Louisville and Memphis, Cincinnati and Memphis, and Evansville and Memphis in Pullman buffet sleeper cars. Scarce, no copies located in OCLC.

Libby Prison, promoted here as "The Palace Prison of the Confederacy" and "A Shrine of Patriotic Memories" was a Confederate prison during the Civil War. Chicago investors purchased the building in the 1880s, dismantling it brick by brick, transporting the pieces to Chicago, and rebuilding it to serve as a Civil War and art museum. The museum lasted for about a decade, until 1899 when the building was deconstructed and its parts and pieces were sold off as souvenirs.