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Steamboats near Bermuda Hundred

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1105 Author/Creator: Place Written: City Point, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph 9.2 x 10.2 cm Order a Copy

The image shows 9 boats on a river, mostly steamboats. One man is lying on the bank in the foreground. Inscription below image: "Bermuda Hundred taken from City Point, Va." Inscription on verso: "Duplicate." Numeric notation struck out on verso: "60-2493" and "61-3031." Numeric notation on verso: "65."

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