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Alexander Gardner

Ruins of Petersburg and Richard Raidroad Bridge

April 1864
Albumen print, pl. 88 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Volume II" (1866)
17.7 × 23 cm (7 × 9.1 in)

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