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TITLE:  [City Point, Va. African American army cook at work]

CALL NUMBER:  LC-B811- 2597[P&P]
  LOT 4172-B (corresponding print). Check for an online group record (may link to related items)

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-cwpb-02010 (digital file from original neg. of left half)
LC-DIG-cwpb-02009 (digital file from original neg. of right half)
LC-DIG-cwpb-02011 (digital file from original neg. of variant)
LC-DIG-cwpb-02012 (digital file from original neg. of variant)
LC-B8171-2597 (b&w film neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.

MEDIUM:  3 negatives (4 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [Between 1860 and 1865]

NOTES:

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0367

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Two plates form left (LC-B811-2597B) and right (LC-B811-2597A) halves of a stereograph pair; with variant view plates (LC-B811-2597C and LC-B811-2597D).

Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-B.

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

SUBJECTS:

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.
Military cookery.
United States--Virginia--City Point.

FORMAT:

Stereographs 1860-1870.
Wet collodion negatives.

PART OF:  Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original neg. of left half) cwpb 02010 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02010
(digital file from original neg. of right half) cwpb 02009 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02009
(digital file from original neg. of variant) cwpb 02011 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02011
(digital file from original neg. of variant) cwpb 02012 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.02012
(digital file from intermediary roll copy film) cwp 4a39735

CONTROL #:  cwp2003000544/PP


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