Image ID: AAPD

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05-06

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

bell; portable darkroom

Locations & Lines:

Pamunkey River; Richmond & York River Railroad (R&YR); White House Landing VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

R&YR Bridge (White House Landing VA)

Transports:

rowboat; USMRR locomotive Warrior/Lt. Gen. Grant

Sources:

Boston Athenaeum; J. Paul Getty Museum; National Archives

Bridge at White House Landing, on the Pamunkey River, VA. At left, fellow photographer Thomas C. Roche sits in front of a portable darkroom, on top of which rests Fowx’s rotating tetraplex lens.

Getty Museum incorrectly says: Railroad Wharf, City Point.

Fowx negative no. 608.

Etched onto negative: 94T. Bridge across the Pamunkey at White House. 608.

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