The Snapshots in Time Collection

Confederate Monument to Robert E. Lee, Pensacola, Florida, c. 1900-1910

Confederate Monument to Robert E. Lee, Pensacola, Florida, c. 1900-1910

A granite obelisk erected in memory of Robert E. Lee stands at the center of a small public plaza in Pensacola, Florida, photographed in the early twentieth century. Two uniformed men rest at its base amid the city's period commercial architecture. Included in a Navy sailor's personal photo album, the image reflects the kind of civic sightseeing common during shore liberty in port cities near naval installations of the era. Project: 218600