Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AALM

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1863.05-06
Negative Size:

11 in. x 14 in.
Military Units:

US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Coal Wharf (Alexandria VA); Cumberland Coal & Iron Company (Alexandria VA); Steamboat Repair Wharf (Alexandria VA)
Transports:

schooner; side-wheeler South America
Sources:

Colgate University; Gilder Lehrman Institute; Huntington Library; Library of Congress; National Archives; Rosenbach Museum; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection
Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Potomac River; Virginia

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 123. Government coal wharf, Alexandria, Va. [Photograph shows two men on the shore of the Potomac River facing the wharf]

Huntington Library says: Coal Wharf, Alexandria Va. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 23. 1863.

The sign over the buildings on the left reads “Cumberland Coal & Iron Comp.” It sits at the end of the Coal Wharf. Beyond it is the Steamboat Repair Wharf. The Georgetown & Alexandria Canal met the Potomac between the two wharves. Across the river is Maryland.

Etched onto negative: 39. 772.

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