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Water Battery at Yorktown [stereoview]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0885 Author/Creator: Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 stereocard 9.5 x 22.2 cm Order a Copy

A stereoview (perhaps made up to be mounted on cardstock) of the water batteries at Yorktown. Numeric notation on verso: "45." Image identical to #884.

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