Robert E. Lee Recumbent Statue, Lexington, Virginia cabinet card, stereoscope card, print photos and post card, 1875/1939

Containers:

Box 8, Folder 34

Scope and content:

The photos in this folder are as follows: A stereoscope card photo of the Lee recumbent statue, by Boude and Miley, 1875. On the back of this card is a early printing notice, Recumbent Figure of Gen. R. E. Lee, by Edward V. Valentine, of Richmond, Va. to be placed in the Mausoleum at Lexington, Virginia. Sold for the Benefit of the Lee Memorial Association. Photographed by M. Miley, Lexington, Va. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by the Lee Memorial Association, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. A circa 1895 cabinet card photo of the Lee recumbent statue. A circa 1930 post card of the Lee recumbent statue in the Lee Memorial Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. The statue represents him asleep in camp. The poscard was made by Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, Illinois and published by the Boley bookstore, Lexington, Virginia. The photo was taken by Miley of Lexington, Virginia. A print photo of the Lee recumbent statue with a wreath and partial gate, including Gen. Charles Kilbourne, Jr. and Gen. William McKendree Evans standing to the right in front of it, at a Son of Confederate Veterans event, May 1939.

Biographical / historical:

Gen. Charles Evans Kilbourne, Jr. graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1894 and later served as the institute's 6th superintendent from 1937 to 1946. He was the first American to earn the United States' three highest military decorations, the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, and the Distinguished Service Medal.

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