Goodbye to Sumter, Wives and Children on Steamship Marion Departing Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Date Created: 1861-02-23, black and white engraving in Harper’s Weekly
Good-by to Sumter, hand-colored offprint
Medium: illustrations (layout features)
Item Location: Fort Sumter NM/Charles Pinckney NHS Curatorial Storage Facility, located at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
Box: Box 3 of 3 FOSU 19th c Illustrations Frank Leslie Harper’s Weekly London Times etc Drawer 1.
Held By: Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
Identifiers
Permanent Link: purl.clemson.edu/AFBB896B13A75A4DEE2F682A131215BD
Mike’s notes:
Special handed-tinted off-prints were also sold separately from newspapers. Numerous originals held today by public institutions and in private collections.
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