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Image ID: AGTT

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05-06

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex

Locations & Lines:

Poplar Grove VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Poplar Grover Farm house (Poplar Grove VA)

Sources:

National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives says: House in which Washington met Martha Custis. Poplar Grove Farm, New Kent Co., Va.

Poplar Grove is on the Pamunkey River near White House.

Etched onto negative: 646.

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.