Title

South-West View of battery, No. 1

Creator

George Norman Barnard
James F. Gibson

Files

Creator Role

photographers copyrighters

Description

The carte de visite photograph decpicts five rifle guns installed at Battery Number 1 at Yorktown, Virginia.

Contributor

Justice Frank J. and Virginia Williams

Approximate Creation Date

1862

Measurement

2 1/2 X 4 inches

Materials and Techniques Display

paper (fiber product); albumen process

Inscription

recto, below print: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by BARNARD & GIBSON, in the Clerk's Office of the / District Court of the District of Columbia. verso, backmark: BRADY'S ALBUM GALLERY. / No. 365. / SOUTH-WEST VIEW OF BATTERY, NO. 1, / At Farnhold's House, York River, mounting 5 100-pound, and / 1 200-pound rifled guns. / The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at con- / siderable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will / be at once instituted against any party infringing the copyright.

Subjects

Carte de visite photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Work Type

albumen prints ; cartes-de-visite (card photographs)

Class

CDVs

Preferred Citation

[Physical ID#]: [Title], Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries.

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

ID

848

Digital ID

FVW_00848

Current Location

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State, Mississippi, United States)

Repository

Mississippi State University Libraries.

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.