Building stockade, Alexandria, Va.

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• Title: Building stockade, Alexandria, Va.

• Creator(s): Russell, Andrew J., photographer

• Date Created/Published: [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889]

• Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen.

• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32758 (digital file from original item) LC-B8184-524 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-BH825-46 (b&w film copy neg.)

• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

• Call Number: LOT 4166-H, no. 44 [P&P]

• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

• Notes:
  • Title from item.
  • Hand written on mount: image printed in reverse.

 

[reading48]

I wonder if that plumb line is going to be the dead line...

 

[Patrick H]

That's a lot of trees and they still haven't completed that wall. Whenever I see a stockade constructed in this manner, I always wonder how long it'll take the termites to eat the bottoms off the logs. Between this sort of construction and rail fences, it's a wonder there were any trees left standing in this historic period.