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Image ID: AMSY

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05-06

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in. tetraplex

Equipment:

bell; portable darkroom

Locations & Lines:

Pamunkey River; White House Landing VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

R&YR Bridge (White House Landing VA)

Transports:

rowboat; USMRR locomotive Warrior/Lt. Gen. Grant

Sources:

Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

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

Portable dark room at left, probably shared with Thomas C. Roche. US Military Railroad locomotive “Lt. Genl. Grant” on barge behind bridge.

Etched onto negative: 606 [changed to] 607.

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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