Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 228
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(CIVIL WAR--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Gardner, Alexander; photographer.] [Aquia Creek Landing, Virginia, Group of Officers.] Albumen print, 7 x 9 inches, unmounted; minor wear, reinforced with tape on verso; numbered 320 in negative, "Gardner" in pencil on verso. [Aquia Creek, VA, February 1863]

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The title comes from the Library of Congress. Among the officers are Col. Rogers, Lt. Col. Charles Greene Sawtelle of Maine, Dr. Whyte, Capt. McGraw, Capt. James William Forsyth of Ohio (in center with beard), and Major Andrew Parker Porter of Pennsylvania. Another Gardner photograph of the same group identifies the building as the Aquia Creek Hospital.