Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AGSM

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)
Date:

1864.06-07
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex
Equipment:

crate; horse; sack
Locations & Lines:

City Point VA; James River; Virginia
Military Units:

US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Building 65 (City Point VA)
Transports:

barge; freight wagon; schooner; side-wheeler
Sources:

National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives says: Wharf at City Point, Va.

Etched onto negative: 675.

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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