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James Gardner

Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia

December 1864
Albumen print, pl. 18 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 in)

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