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

View of buildings along the Appomattox River, including the Merchant Manufacturing Company's cotton mill on the right, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Virginia, United States

May 1865

- The page accompanying the photograph contains printed text with the title "View on the Appomattox River, near Camplbell's Bridge, Petersburg.". Both the page and the photograph were published in 'Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War' (Gardner, vol. II, n.p.).

Albumen silver print from wet collodion glass plate negative

comp.: 17.7 x 22.9 cm secondary support: 30.7 x 39.6 cm

PH1976:0043

• exterior view

- A brown border frames the photograph. The object is attached to the CCA mount with two paper corners and white woven tape in the l.l. and l.r. A page, approximately the same size as the secondary support, is attached along the left side of the recto and is folded back behind the secondary support.

imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "May, 1865." imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "No. 82." 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 1866, 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."

Appomattox River; Petersburg; Dinwiddie County;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• trees
• river
• road
• bridge (built work)
• buildings
• cotton mill