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Balaclava looking seawards, the Commandant's house in the foreground - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

Balaclava looking seawards, the Commandant's house in the foreground - Roger Fenton's Crimean War Photographs

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Balaklava looking seaward showing general view of the landscape and buildings with the Commandant's house in the foreground, behind which, to the right, is the ordnance wharf and the harbor with a line of ships receding to the middle distance, and in the upper left corner, the remains of the old Genoese castle perched on the hills that line the harbor.
Title transcribed from verso.
Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944.
Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection.

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Date

01/01/1855
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Contributors

Fenton, Roger, 1819-1869, photographer
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Location

Balaklava (Ukraine)44.50000, 33.60000
Google Map of 44.5, 33.6
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Library of Congress
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