View of Poplar Grove Church with soldiers in the foreground, Petersburg, Virginia, United States

People:

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (photographer)
Alexander Gardner (printer)
Captain Michael H. McGrath (role unspecified)

Title:

View of Poplar Grove Church with soldiers in the foreground, Petersburg, Virginia, United States

Date:

February 1865

Description:

- The page accompanying the photograph contains printed text with the title "View of Poplar Grove Church.". Both the page and the photograph were published in 'Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War' (Gardner, vol. II, n.p.).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print from wet collodion glass plate negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.9 x 17.8 cm secondary support: 45.1 x 32.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0234

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- A brown border frames the photograph. The secondary support is attached to the CCA mount with three paper corners and white woven tape on the u.l., l.l. and l.r. A page, approximately the same size as the secondary support, accompanies the photograph and was previously attached to the top of the recto of the secondary support.

Inscription:

imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "No. 74." imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."; l.l.: "Negative by T.H. O'SULLIVAN."; l.r.: "Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington."

Location:

Petersburg; Dinwiddie County; Virginia; United S

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
soldiers
church tower
church

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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