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French & Co. R.R. Depot, Vicksburg, Miss

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0093 Author/Creator: French & Co. Place Written: Vicksburg, Mississippi Type: Photograph Date: 1863 Pagination: 1 albumen print Height: 23.3 cm, Width: 27.3 cm Order a Copy

A print of a photograph showing two trains running on tracks through a railroad depot near Vicksburg, MS. Title taken from inscription on recto. This depot is on the Vicksburg & Jackson line. Until Gen. Grant cut off the rail link, this was the destination of the supplies the Confederates stockpiled to resist the Federal seige. Stamp of French & Co. on recto. On verso graphite inscription reads "RR depot" and is stamped "Kean Archives, Phila."

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