COLLECTION NAME:
Savannah Postcard Collection
Record
Title:
DeSoto Hotel and Jasper Monument, Savannah, Ga.
Description:
Color postcard of the Hotel DeSoto and the Jasper monument with white border, divided back, and postally unused. The Jasper Monument, located in Madison Square, was erected in 1888. It is a fifteen and one half feet high heroic scale bronze statue of Sgt. William Jasper, with sword in hand, raising the flag. It sits on a granite stepped pedestal with four bas relief bronze plaques and is surrounded by benches. The monument is in memory of Sergeant William Jasper of the Second South Carolina Regiment, who was killed at the Siege of Savannah on 9 October 1779. Construction on the Hotel DeSoto began in 1888. It was a Richardsonian Romanesque style building designed by Boston architect William Gibbons Preston. The publisher of the postcard was E. C. Kropp, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Subject:
Historic buildings
Subject:
Hotels
Publisher:
E.C. Kropp Co.
Date:
1913-1930
Coverage:
Savannah (Ga.)
Coverage:
Georgia
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Format/Medium:
Postcards
Format/Medium:
Lithographs
Source:
Savannah Postcard Collection, MS 016, Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Though this item is believed to be in the Public Domain, copyright may have been retained by the authors or creators of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
