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Wagon Train near Yorktown, Va. [split stereocard]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.1178 Author/Creator: Place Written: Yorktown, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph 8.9 x 8.9 cm Order a Copy

Image is of over three dozen uncovered, unhitched and unladen wagons. Graphite inscription on verso: "Wagon Train. 4." Numeric notation on verso: "505." Publisher's imprint on verso: "Published by E & H T Anthony & Co., New York. Negative by Brady & Co, Washington."Written near Yorktown, Virginia

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