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TITLE:  Federal Battery - Yorktown. May 1862

CALL NUMBER:  LC-BH822- 364[P&P]
  LOT 4166-J (corresponding print). Check for an online group record (may link to related items)

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-cwpbh-03380 (digital file from original neg. of left half)
LC-DIG-cwpbh-03381 (digital file from original neg. of right half)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

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

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [between 1862 and 1865]

CREATOR:

Gibson, James F., b. 1828, photographer.

NOTES:

Two plates form left (LC-BH822-364A) and right (LC-BH822-364B) halves of a stereograph pair.

Annotation from negative, scratched on emulsion: 364.

Gardner, A. Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war gives title as "View of Battery No. 1, at Farnhold's House, York River, mounting one 200-pound and five 100-pound rifled guns."

These stereo negatives possibly in series B811 before the negatives were acquired by the Library (information from Bob Zeller, 10/23/03).

Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-J.

Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

SUBJECTS:

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

FORMAT:

Stereographs 1860-1870.
Glass negatives 1860-1870.

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

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original neg.) cwpbh 03380 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03380
(digital file from original neg.) cwpbh 03381 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03381

CONTROL #:  cwp2003001318/PP


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