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Mortar Dictator, in Front of Petersburg
Alexander GardnerOctober 1864
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of a large mortar on a wooden platform built atop a railroad truck. A group of soldiers stand on the platform behind the mortar, as a smaller group sit and stand on mortar shells to the left. The tracks of the Petersburg Railroad extend out from beneath the platform.
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Details
- Title: Mortar Dictator, in Front of Petersburg
- Creator: David Knox, Alexander Gardner
- Date Created: October 1864
- Location Created: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 17.2 × 22.5 cm (6 3/4 × 8 7/8 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.944.2.2.25
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: David Knox (American, active 1860s) Alexander Gardner (American, born Scotland, 1821 - 1882)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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