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Hi all,
Was just perusing around the Library of Congress collection . . . again, and came across this image: "Petersburg, Virginia. Cock fighting at Gen. Orlando B. Willcox's headquarters" taken by David Knox, August 1864 - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collecti...2003006345/PP/
Here ya go:
If you upload the .tiff file and zoom in on the fellow hunkering behind the right "rooster handler", who's holding up a pamphlet. After squinting at it for a minute, I guessed it said "Atlantic Monthly". Well, I lucked out with the guess. Cornell University happens to have just about every back issue of the magazine digitized, August 1864 being one of them: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/a/atla/index.html
Now that doesn't mean the fellow is holding the most current issue, and I can't make out the volume number, but still, pretty cool to be able to see some of the words he may have read.
Enjoy!
Was just perusing around the Library of Congress collection . . . again, and came across this image: "Petersburg, Virginia. Cock fighting at Gen. Orlando B. Willcox's headquarters" taken by David Knox, August 1864 - http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collecti...2003006345/PP/
Here ya go:
If you upload the .tiff file and zoom in on the fellow hunkering behind the right "rooster handler", who's holding up a pamphlet. After squinting at it for a minute, I guessed it said "Atlantic Monthly". Well, I lucked out with the guess. Cornell University happens to have just about every back issue of the magazine digitized, August 1864 being one of them: http://digital.library.cornell.edu/a/atla/index.html
Now that doesn't mean the fellow is holding the most current issue, and I can't make out the volume number, but still, pretty cool to be able to see some of the words he may have read.
Enjoy!