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Andrew Joseph Russell|Egbert Guy Fowx|Mathew B. Brady

[A Union Station on the James River Established for Extracting Gunpowder from Confederate Torpedoes]

1864
Albumen silver print from glass negative
13.3 × 20.6 cm (5.2 × 8.1 in)

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