Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia

Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia

Photograph

James Gardner

Maker
American, b. Scotland, 1862–d. unknown

Alexander Gardner

American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882

Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia

Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. I, 1866.


December 1864
Albumen silver print, printed ca. 1866
Image: 17.8 x 23 cm
Overall: 30.5 x 39.5 cm
Museum accession
1981.0004.0018
Inscriptions Printed on mount recto, BL: Negative by J. Gardner.
Printed on mount recto, BC: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
Printed on mount recto, BR: Positive by A. Gardner, 511 7th st., Washington.
Printed on mount recto, BC: Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia.
Printed on mount recto, BL: No. 18.
Printed on mount recto, BR: December, 1864.
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BC: 21 picas wide
Inscribed in pencil on mount recto, BRC: 39

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