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Summary
In album: [Album of ephemera and Civil War era photographs; photos and album compiled by Larkin Goldsmith Mead], page 77.
Photograph probably by G. H. Houghton, photographer of other photographs in this album and fellow resident of Mead's in Brattleboro, Vermont. Houghton worked as a photographer at Camp Griffin and in the Tidewater area of Virginia during the time that Larkin Goldsmith Mead spent there with the Army of the Potomac as an artist for Harper's Weekly and making topographical drawings for Brig. Gen. William F. Smith in 1861 and 1862.
Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography.
Accession box no. DLC/PP-1975:071
Tags
Date
01/01/1861
Contributors
Houghton, G. H. (George Harper), approximately 1824-1870, photographer
Mead, Larkin G. (Larkin Goldsmith), 1835-1910, collector
Location
Langley (Va.), 38.94639, -77.15889
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain
