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Egbert Guy Fowx

[Prof. Maillefert and Naval Officers Employed to Remove Gunpowder from Confederate Torpedoes, James River, Virginia]

April 1865
Albumen silver print from glass negative
12.9 × 19.6 cm (5.1 × 7.7 in)

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