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Image ID: AGQV

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex

Locations & Lines:

Belle Plain VA; Potomac River; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Lower wharf (Belle Plain VA)

Sources:

National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives incorrectly says: Scene on River. Landing at City Point.

Actually distant view of Belle Plain, VA.

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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