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Image ID: AGSI

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex

Locations & Lines:

Belle Plain VA; Potomac River; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Lower wharf (Belle Plain VA)

Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives incorrectly says: View on James River, Va.

Belle Plain landing in distance, on Potomac River, VA.

Etched onto negative: 5006.

One of 28 surviving Fowx negatives created using a rotating lens mount to shoot four consecutive exposures onto one plate. For our downloadable files of the four exposures we have aligned the images so that they can be viewed consecutively (a,b,c,d), creating a brief video clip.

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