Monument to Confederate dead

Monument to Confederate dead

Photograph

George S. Cook

Maker
American, 1819–1902

Monument to Confederate dead

From Views of Richmond and Vicinity


ca. 1890
Gelatin silver print (POP)
Image: 5 1/2 × 3 15/16 in. (14 × 10 cm)
Mount: 8 × 5 in. (20.3 × 12.7 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Lyndon Wells
1982.0287.0001
Inscriptions verso (in print): VIEWS OF RICHMOND AND VICINITY [underlined]

GEO. S. COOK,
913 East Main Photographer....
Street,

RICHMOND, VA.

[decorative swirl]

MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATE DEAD,

Hollywood Cemetery,

Where lie buried 18,000 Confederate
Soldiers.

[line]

Height of Monument, . . . . . 90 feet.
Base of Monument, . . . . . . 45 feet.
Cost, . . . . . . . . . . . $18,000.

(stamped in blue ink): 6444

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