Part of Federal Line of Works, showing Bombproof Tents occupied by U. S. Colored Troops in front of Petersburg, Virginia

Part of Federal Line of Works, showing Bombproof Tents occupied by U. S. Colored Troops in front of Petersburg, Virginia

Photograph

Timothy H. O'Sullivan

Maker
American, b. Ireland, 1840–1882

Part of Federal Line of Works, showing Bombproof Tents occupied by U. S. Colored Troops in front of Petersburg, Virginia

From Photographic Incidents of the War


August 7, 1864
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 × 2 7/8 in. (7.6 × 7.3 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (8.2 × 17.1 cm)
Gift of Albert Morton Turner
1981.6071.0002
Inscriptions mount-verso (printed label) "Photographic Incidents of the War.
Published and for sale by Philp & Solomons, Washington. No. 802.
[title] From The Galleries of Alexander Gardner, Photographer to the
Army of the Potomac, 332 Pennsylvania Avenue and 511 Seventh street,
Washington, D. C. Negative T. H. O'Sullivan. E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.,
501 Broadway, New York, Wholesale Agents."
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