English: LIBI_00019_00245; This item is a silver gelatin print postcard of Appomattox Court House. The postcard is 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" and was produced circa 1914 commissioned by A. L. Cheney. This item is part of a photographic series and on the front bottom center, a handwritten notation in blue ink reads, "No. 2." On the verso, a handwritten notation in blue ink reads: "Appomattox C.H./Main street looking towards site of Court House, which formerly stood where the group of trees in shown in middle of picture between the buildings. The street turns at left just this side of court house site and its immediate extension is shown in Nos. 3 & 4. The whole street is but a few rods long & there are not over a dozen houses in the little hamlet to-day and at least half of these are vacant. This certainly the most forlorn, desolate & [illegible word] little hamlet it has ever been my lot to see, though the situation is very pleasant at the bottom of a slowly descending basin with low encircling hills all about. Everythin

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