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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 14, 2015
Caption: Souvenir
Additional Description: British Rear Admiral George Cockburn and the inscription he made in what remains the only book known to have survived the 1814 burning of the Library of Congress.

In Cockburn's handwriting: “Taken in President's room in the Capitol, at the destruction of that building by the British, on the capture of Washington, 24th August, 1814. [later] by Admiral Cockburn & by him presented to his eldest brother Sir James Cockburn of Langton Bart. Governor of Bermuda.”

In Rosenbach's handwriting: “And now, this sixth day of January 1940, after 126 years, restored to the Library of Congress, by A.S.W. Rosenbach.” Close-up of photo on marker
Submitted: February 15, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p300407
File Size: 1.367 Megabytes

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