BEFORE AND AFTER IN A PARK---

An Example of the Conservation of Historic Sites

The upper photograph was made about 1900 on a slope looking northward to South Fort, a defensive work situated south of Vicksburg and overlooking the Mississippi River. The lower picture, made last month at the same site in Vicksburg National Military Park, illustrates strikingly the results of restorative and preservative treatment which has been carried out there to safeguard the historic area and to adapt it for safe and convenient use by the public.