Rear view of Blandford Church (now Old Blandford Church of Bristol Parish) with a soldier and a man in the cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia, United States

People:

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (photographer)
Alexander Gardner (printer)

Title:

Rear view of Blandford Church (now Old Blandford Church of Bristol Parish) with a soldier and a man in the cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia, United States

Date:

April 1865

Description:

- The page accompanying the photograph contains printed text with the title "Blandford Church, Petersburg, Virginia.". 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

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.3 x 22.5 cm secondary support: 31.6 x 41.4 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:0175

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 clear plastic corners on the u.r., l.l. and l.r. The secondary support is torn along the left edge. A page, approximately the same size as the secondary support, accompanies the photograph and was previously attached to the left side of the recto of the secondary support.

Inscription:

imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "April, 1865." imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "No. 85." 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.l. to l.r.: "Negative by T.H. O'SULLIVAN."; "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."; and "Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington."

Location:

Petersburg; Dinwiddie County; Virginia; United S

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fence
wall
men (male humans)
tombstones
church
soldier

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

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