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Image ID: AAKQ

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1865.05

Negative Size:

10 in. x 13 in.

Equipment:

horse

Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Potomac River; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

boxcar; horse-drawn cart; schooner; side-wheeler

Sources:

Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; National Archives

Library of Congress says: View from Pioneer Mill, looking up the wharf. [Photograph shows cargo ships at the wharf in Alexandria, Virginia from Pioneer Mill, which was six stories high]

GIlder Lehrman Institute syas: View up the Wharf from Pioneer Mill, Alexandria; May 1865.

Just left of center is a small white building with a “Restaurant” sign. In the distance, a line of USMRR box cars enter a long white building.

Etched onto negative: 88. 763.

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