[Guns & Artillery] A Late 19th Century Photograph Album of Ordnance and Artillery from "Freedom's Fortress" Fort Monroe

No place, no date ca. 1880s. Comprising 23 albumen prints mounted to card; some with manuscript captions. Oblong 4to. Black pebbled cloth-covered boards, spine perished, boards and extremities moderately worn and soiled; Fort Monroe library book-plate ("Coast Artillery School") on front paste-down; cards loose; foxing and soiling to cards; several with Fort Monroe Artillery School ink stamps.

Fort Monroe was constructed between 1819 and 1834 at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia to guard the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. The largest stone fort ever built in the United States, it played a vital role in American coastal defense for nearly two centuries. During the Civil War, Fort Monroe remained under Union control and became known as "Freedom's Fortress" after serving as a refuge for thousands of formerly enslaved people escaping Confederate territory. Following the war, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was briefly imprisoned there.

Lot includes two excised printed Congressional acts, 1860s, related to fire-arms, as well as sheets from issues of Harper's, etc., related to guns.

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How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[Guns & Artillery] A Late 19th Century Photograph Album of Ordnance and Artillery from "Freedom's Fortress" Fort Monroe

How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X

[Guns & Artillery] A Late 19th Century Photograph Album of Ordnance and Artillery from "Freedom's Fortress" Fort Monroe

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