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Extreme Line of Confederate Works, Cold Harbor, Virginia
Alexander Gardner, John ReekieApril 1865
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of a large fallen tree in a field used by Confederate soldiers to create a defensive line. Piles of wooden boards are propped up to create pyramids and leaned against the trunk of the tree, along with twigs and branches gathered from the surrounding landscape.
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- Title: Extreme Line of Confederate Works, Cold Harbor, Virginia
- Creator: John Reekie, Alexander Gardner
- Date Created: April 1865
- Location Created: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 17.1 × 22.9 cm (6 3/4 × 9 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.944.2.2.46
- 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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