Figure 1: Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, 1862.The Libby Prison Museum
The Libby Prison Museum, located in Chicago, Illinois, displayed a large collection of Civil War artifacts from 1889 ot 1899. Most of the following images are from the Chicago Historical Society.
Here are illustrations to accompany the text of an article in progress:
Figure 1: Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, 1862.
Figure 2: The Libby Prison Museum, Chicago, Illinois, 1892.
Figure 3: Dime Museum, South State Street, Chicago.
Figure 4: Moving a Building in Chicago, 1877. From L. Simonin, Le Monde Americain,1877.
Figure 5: Meatpacking operation, Chicago Stockyards, from Seven Days in Chicago,1876.
Here are some further images related to the Libby Prison Museum, the history of museums, and the history of Chicago:
A poster advertising the Libby Prison Museum
A view of some of the exhibition cases in the Libby Prison Museum
A Map of Chicago, showing the location of the Libby Prison Museum
View of the Libby Prison from the James River, Richmond, Virginia
"The Artist in His Museum" by C. W. Peale (1822). The original is in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
A Dime Museum in the Bowery, New York, 1881 (from Harper's)
A Libby Prison Museum postcard
A poster advertising the Libby Prison Museum ("No Stranger Should Leave Chicago Without Visiting…")
One of the guards of the Libby Prison Museum in the "Shell Room"
A view of the interior of the church of Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
Illustration from a cigar box lid, showing the demolition, transportation and rebuilding of L.P.
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