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A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia (Main View)
John Reekie, Alexander Gardner
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of a man crouching behind a stretcher piled with the skeletons of soldiers killed in battle at Cold Harbor. Four men stand across the field in the background use shovels to dig graves to bury the dead.
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- Title: A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia (Main View)
- Creator: John Reekie, Alexander Gardner
- Date Created: April 1865
- Location Created: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 17.3 × 22.2 cm (6 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XO.944.2.2.44
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: John Reekie (American, active 1860s) Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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