9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. unmounted albumen photograph (creasing, edge/corner losses, toning to edges). Numbered "16" in the negative to lower left. Published as Plate 89 in Alexander Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War.

Taken in the same month as the war was ended, this view of Libby Prison, captured from Castle Thunder, shows the Union flag waving over the top of the building. Destitute persons can be seen crowded around the prison's corner door, seeking relief.

[With:] Approx. 3 in. fragment of wood identified on typed label as a "rare piece of the actual flooring from the Libby Prison," mounted on distressed wooden presentation slab with photocopied book page featuring Libby Prison image and caption (separated, heavily stained). Accompanied by a period inked scrap of paper contained in plastic sleeve on verso reading, "Piece of flooring of the [indecipherable] Libby prison / War relics."