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Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, at Berlin by Alexander Gardner — VisualArtsDB

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Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, at Berlin

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, at Berlin

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, at Berlin

Alexander Gardner

1862

Medium: Albumen print, pl. 25 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 31.2 × 44.6 cm (12 5/16 × 17 9/16 in.)
Genre: Photographs
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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19th centuryphotographyalbumen silver printphotographCollected by Hugh EdwardsGardner's Photographic Sketch Book

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