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A design in pencil by Edward Valentine of the Jefferson Davis Monument with a tall pillar surrounded by lowered colonnade and a seated figure of Davis in the middle.
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Monument Avenue: Jefferson Davis Monument

The United Daughters of the Confederacy were the main supporters of the Davis Monument and, in 2018, it was deemed the “most unabashedly Lost Cause in its design and sentiment.”

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KKK Parade on Monument Avenue, 1920s

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Monument Avenue: Origins and Reverberations

Experience the past and present of Richmond’s Monument Avenue through an augmented reality guided walking tour.

Advertisement for The Lost Cause by Edward A. Pollard of Virginia, Editor of the Richmond Examiner during the war.
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Jefferson Davis Monument Association Meeting Minutes, 1903

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Exterior view of Edward Valentine’s studio with carriage doors on the front and a large window and skylight on the side as well as a sculpture of a woman in the yard.
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Edward Valentine’s Studio

Essay: Edward Valentine’s artist’s studio first served as a carriage house with stable and bath for Thomas Green. Valentine acquired the structure in 1871 and converted it into his studio, where he worked for nearly 50 years.

People standing in a confederate flag formation around a monument.
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Human Confederate Flag Postcard, ca. 1907

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