Captured siege guns at Rocketts

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• Title: Richmond, Virginia. Captured siege guns at Rocketts

• Date Created/Published: 1865 Apr.

• Medium: 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion.

• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-cwpb-02501 (digital file from original neg. of left half) LC-DIG-cwpb-02500 (digital file from original neg. of right half)

• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

• Call Number: LC-B811- 3157 [P&P]

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

• Notes:
  • Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., April 1865. Confederate Seige Guns at Rocketts.
  • Two plates form left (LC-B811-3157B) and right (LC-B811-3157A) halves of a stereograph pair.
  • Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

 

[donna]

Wonderful reflection of guns in the water. I wonder who took this photo.

 

[Mr. King]

There was a lot of standing water in that area when all these pics were shot. Yellow fever and malaria must have been an issue.

 

[NFB22]

There was a lot of standing water in that area when all these pics were shot. Yellow fever and malaria must have been an issue.

Well it was a Navy Yard located on the James...