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Quarles' Mill, 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
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
View of Quarles Mill on the North Anna River. Water rushes over a spillway in the river next to the log and stone building.
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