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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 9, 2010.
Depicted ContentFlorence Stockade, SC
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drawing
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Original caption
Florence military prison series - "Fiddling for wood squad"
Source citation
Morgan Collection of Civil War Drawings, Prints and Photograph Division, Library of Congress
Source note
Artist: James E. Taylor
Ezra Hoyt Ripple of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a former prisoner at Florence Stockade, commissioned James E. Taylor in 1897 to do a set of watercolors as lantern-slide illustrations for his extensive speaking engagements on his war-time experiences.