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Interior of earthworks at Petersburg, Va. [duplicate] [1864-1865 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0610 Author/Creator: Place Written: Petersburg, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1864-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 10.2 cm, Width: 12.7 cm Order a Copy

Same image as #612 but the print is cut smaller. The image shows the interior of the earthworks at Petersburg. There is a now roofless wooden structure in the foreground next to the ruins of a chimney. A man in civilian clothes is visible just left of the center of the image. The numbers "1071" and "386" do not appear in this image- that part has been trimmed off. There is a notation of "1071" written in the lower left corner of the image. Formerly part of H.W. Fay's (keeper of Lincoln's tomb) scrapbook.
See GLC 5111.01.0612

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