Court House, Smithville, North Carolina (Capture of Wilmington)

Item Information

Title:
Court House, Smithville, North Carolina (Capture of Wilmington)
Description:
In Leslie's Illustrated March 18, 1865, p. 412.
Creator:
Becker, Joseph, 1841-1910
Date:
February 3, 1865
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Boston College
Collection (local):
Becker collection
Subjects:
Courthouses--Pictorial works--North Carolina--Smithville
Siege, 1864-1865--Pictorial works--Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)
History--Pictorial works--1861--1865--North Carolina
History--Pictorial works--1800--1899--Smithville (N.C.)
Places:
North Carolina > New Hanover (county) > Kure Beach
North Carolina > Mecklenburg (county) > Cornelius
Extent:
1 online resource (1 image)
Link to Item:
https://hdl.handle.net/2345/4623
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
Contact host institution for more information.
Notes:
Condition: Raggedness along margins.
Original drawing location: CW-JB-NC-2/3/65b (Box 3.)
Physical description of original: graphite on wove paper ; 6.75 x 4.75 in.
Recto: different hand: "Used Feb 24."
Verso: "Court House, Smithville NC // Feb 3rd." Different hand: "Va [canceled] // [Signed] J.B. // One of the apartments in this building was used as a shoe store and the rest as court offices. Piles of public dockuments [sic; k canceled] were strewn over the floors some of them very old dating as far back the times of Washington."
Identifier:
2345/4623
81489124650001021
99137908150401021
Call #:
E468.7