Spot, Cuban Bloodhound, used for capturing escaped Union prisoners at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia Photographed by J.W. Turner, No. 47 Hanover Street, Boston

Chain gang of convicts engaged in road work. Pitt County, North Carolina. Autumn 1910. The inmates were quartered in the wagons shown in the picture. Wagons were equipped with bunks and move from place to place as labor is utilized. The central figure in the picture is J.Z. McLawhon, who was at that time county superintendent of chain gangs. The dogs are bloodhounds used for running down any attempted escapes

Civil War veteran George W. Warner of Co. B, 20th Connecticut Infantry Regiment with amputated arms Peck, photographer

Relics of Andersonville Prison from the collection brought from there by Miss Clara Barton and Dorence Atwater, Aug., 1865, and photographed by Brady & Co. for the great National Fair, Washington, June, 1866 M.B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries, No. 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington, D.C. & New York

Toper's return from the bar, and, Prisoner for life. L. Deming, No. 62 Hanover Street, Boston

Freeman's Crossing Bridge, Spanning Middle Fork of Yuba River at CA State Highway 49, North San Juan, Nevada County, CA

Spot, Cuban Bloodhound, used for capturing escaped Union prisoners at Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Georgia Photographed by J.W. Turner, No. 47 Hanover Street, Boston

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Printed on verso: Detailed description of the dog.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072)
Purchased from: James C. Frasca, Croton, Ohio, October 2016.
Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs (Library of Congress).
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