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File Details: AMUUm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 16.8 Mb

Image ID: AMUU

Credit:

by Fowx (Egbert G.)

Date:

1864.05-06

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

anchor; grinding wheel; rope

Locations & Lines:

Pamunkey River; White House Landing VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

USMRR floating pile driver (a)

Sources:

Private collection

The larger of the two USMRR floating pile-drivers, busy building a wharf at White House Landing, VA.

The rough wharf on which three men sit in the foreground can be seen from the other side in Related Image AARJ. From that same spot, Fowx turned to his right to shoot the wharf under construction (Related Image AAQH).

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