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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.