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File Details: AKUXm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 48.7 Mb

Image ID: AKUX

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.11.20

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo

Locations & Lines:

Dutch Gap Canal VA; Virginia

Military Units:

Army of the James; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: [Dutch Gap, Va. The canal under construction].

Susan E. Williams, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 110, No. 4, p452: [Russell stood on] the north bank of the James…to photograph the Dutch Gap Canal as army engineers prepared to blast open the ditch for navigation.

Anthony No. 2548.

Etched onto negative: 2548.