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[Bermuda Hundred, Va. Photographer at Butler's signal tower] (LOC)

[Bermuda Hundred, Va. Photographer at Butler's signal tower]

 

1864.

 

1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.

 

Notes:

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Two plates form left (LC-B811-2500B) and right (LC-B811-2500A) halves of a stereograph pair.

Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-G.

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0325

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Shows an African American man standing along with signal core.

Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

 

Subjects:

Signal towers.

Photography.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications.

United States--Virginia--Bermuda Hundred.

 

Format: Stereographs--1860-1870.

Wet collodion negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) (DLC) 94837675

 

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.01829

 

Call Number: LC-B811- 2500

 

 

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Uploaded on August 18, 2011
Taken sometime in 1864