Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AEEHm, 350 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 6.7 Mb

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Image ID: AEEH

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)
Date:

1864.05-06
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Equipment:

bell; portable darkroom
Locations & Lines:

Pamunkey River; Richmond & York River Railroad (R&YR); White House Landing VA; Virginia
Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Persons:

Roche (Thomas C.)
Structures & Establishments:

R&YR Bridge (White House Landing VA)
Transports:

rowboat; USMRR locomotive Warrior/Lt. Gen. Grant
Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; SMU; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Temporary bridge across Pamunkey River near White House Landing.

At left, fellow photographer Thomas C. Roche sits in front of a portable darkroom, on top of which sits Fowx’s rotating lens, designed to make four small exposures on one larger glass plate negative. See Related Images AGQS for an example from this same spot.

Fowx and Roche traveled together, working both for Mathew Brady and for the War Department, under special orders from QMD General Meigs.

Fowx negative no. 607.

Etched onto negative: 607.

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