Quartermaster's store [rooms?], the point ...
Summary
Photograph shows the levee at Fort Prentiss, Cairo, Illinois. View includes the Ohio River in the background, military facilities, and railroad tracks.
Title from inscriptions on item.
Additional inscriptions identify the following sites: "Bird's point", "Miss. River", "Col. Paine's barrack", "to Columbia".
Photograph possibly taken by Munn & Faul.
"No. 1" upper left corner.
Purchase; William L. Schaeffer; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:173.05).
Exhibited: "East of the Mississippi : Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March - July 2017; at the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oct. 2017 - January 2018.
Tags
Date
01/01/1861
Location
Cairo (Ill.), 37.00528, -89.17639
Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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