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Title: Alexandria wharf
Creator: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Contributor: Clough, J. B. (Joel Barber), 1823-1881. (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Daily activity on wharf in Alexandria, Virginia, including horses, horse-drawn wagons, men working and one woman in a white dress observing activity. There are a few ships docked and three are sailing down the river. Title on mount: Alex Wharf. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 27.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 14 x 19.5 cm, mount 23 x 27 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (1)
396469
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/258
Subject: Piers & wharves--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Potomac River--1860-1870
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic aspects
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source: Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Frank Clough, Capt. Clough's grandson, July 25, 1975.

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