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Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862 by Alexander Gardner — VisualArtsDB

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

Pontoon Bridge Across the Potomac, Berlin, October 1862

Alexander Gardner

1862

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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American Civil WarriversBridges

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