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View looking west on Main Street in Richmond, Virginia.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0717 Author/Creator: Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: April 1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 10.2 cm, Width: 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Federal wagons parked on the right of the road and travelling up the road in the distance. Manure piles on left of road. Inscription on verso: "View on Main Street Richmond." Numeric Notation on verso: "153."

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