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Jericho Mills, North Anna, Virginia
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Alexander GardnerAmerican Photographer · 1821–1882
All works by this person →As an idealistic young reporter and newspaper editor in Glasgow, Scotland, Alexander Gardner dreamed of forming a semi-socialistic colony somewhere in what he thought of as the unspoiled wilderness of America. He selected a place in Iowa, but even though he sent family and friends to live there, Gardner never joined them. Instead, when he disembarked in New York he remained. The celebrated America
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- May 1864
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- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
View of the Union Army encampment at Jericho Mills on the North Anna River. A pontoon bridge constructed by the Union Army stretches across the river to a clearing with wooden carts. The mill sits on the river bank to the right of the bridge, and additional buildings sit at the top of a slope covered with felled trees and tree stumps. Covered wagons and horses are visible in a field in the distance.
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