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File Details: ABFZm, 300 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 6.9 Mb

Image ID: ABFZ

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1864.06-07

Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.

Locations & Lines:

City Point VA; City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); James River; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Building 65 (City Point VA)

Transports:

barge W. R. Platt; freight wagon; schooner; USMRR floating pile driver (a)

Sources:

Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Early view of City Point wharves. Sometimes misidentified as Belle Plain.

G. Frank Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point, p83: City Point from south, 1864.

G. Frank Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point, p122: Riverfront at City Point from south, 1864.

The larger of the two USMRR floating pile-drivers can be seen just right of center.

Etched onto negative: No. 2, New No. 281 [both crossed out]. 344. 9561.

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