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General Wheeler and Secretary Alger /

General Wheeler and Secretary Alger /

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Summary

"This picture was taken in front of Gen. Wheeler's headquarters at Camp Wikoff during Gen. Alger's tour of inspection of the camp. The two distinguished military men are seen overlooking the immense camp ground, and then turning and walking toward the camera. The negative is very fine photographically, and the portraiture unexcelled"--Biograph picture catalogue.
H28551 U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 24Feb1903; H28551.
Original main title lacking.
Probable release date from AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910.
Duration: 0:23 at 16 fps.
Filmed in September, 1898 in Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point, Long Island, New York.
Biograph production no. 775.
Paper print shelf number (LC 0120) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Additional holdings for this title may be available. Contact reference librarian.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K. Early motion pictures, p. 116-117; Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902, p. 107 [MI]; AFI catalog: film beginnings, 1893-1910, p. 402; Biograph production log, v. 1: 1899-1903.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
35 mm dupe neg pic renumbered: FPE 9292 to FZA 2722.

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Date

01/01/1898
person

Contributors

Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906.
Alger, R. A. (Russell Alexander), 1836-1907.
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
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Location

Montauk (N.Y.)41.03583, -71.95444
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