Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AGQP

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)
Date:

1864.05-06
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex
Equipment:

flag; horse
Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Virginia
Structures & Establishments:

Great Western Clothing House and City Bookstore (Alexandria VA); Julius Schonfield’s Dry Good Store (Alexandria VA); Marshall House (Alexandria VA); Oyster Bay (Alexandria VA)
Transports:

horse-drawn carriage
Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Marshall House, Alexandria, Va. Scene of death of Col. Ellsworth.

One of 28 surviving Fowx negatives created using a rotating lens mount to shoot four consecutive exposures onto one plate. For our downloadable files of the four exposures we have aligned the images so that they can be viewed consecutively (a,b,c,d), creating a brief video clip.

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