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Supply wharf, Belle Plain

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1048 Author/Creator: Place Written: Belle Plain, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 8.3 cm, Width: 7.9 cm Order a Copy

The image shows numerous covered wagons on the road to the supply wharf with A-frame tents and at least six visible boats docked and out on the river. Numeric notation on image: "82." Inscription on verso: "Belle Plain Landing, Va." Numeric notations on verso: "82" and "62."

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