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Timothy O'Sullivan

Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland

September 1862
Albumen print, pl. 22 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
22.9 × 17.7 cm (9 × 7 in)

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