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Lot 757
Sale 2067 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Nov 6, 2024
Lots Close
Nov 20, 2024
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$318
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOG.] Prisoners in the Ohio Penitentiary on their way to dinner. Columbus: Wm. Oldroyd.
CDV on cardstock mount showing a large group of men, including several prisoners in striped uniforms, standing on the grounds of the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. Verso with title and photographer's imprint.
During the Civil War, the Ohio State Penitentiary was the site of the imprisonment and escape of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan.