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File Details: AJUFm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 41.5 Mb

Image ID: AJUF

Credit:

by O’Sullivan (Timothy H.)

Date:

1864.08.07

Negative Size:

4 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

cooking pot; wash tub

Locations & Lines:

Petersburg battlefield VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 804. Near view of Bombproof tent in the advance line in front of Petersburg, Va., August 7, 1864. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Photographic War History. The War for the Union. 1861-1865. No. 804. Making Coffee, On the Lines before Petersburg, Va., 1864. This view gives a glimpse of the bomb-proofs in which our soldiers tried to live, during the long siege of Petersburg, 1864–1865; the camp-fire and the coffee-kettle look as familiar as in those days of yore. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Gardner No. 804.

Etched onto and written on negative: 172 [crossed out]. 804.

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