View of Yorktown From Cornwallis' Cave

Artist George N. Barnard (American, 1819 - 1902)

Dateca. 1862

MediumAlbumen stereograph

DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 2 7/8 × 6 1/16 inches (7.3 × 15.4 cm)
Mount: 3 3/16 × 6 11/16 inches (8.1 × 16.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3647

SignedOn mount verso, center, white label, in black type: "From / Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, / Washington, D.C. / Negative by G. N. Barnard. / E. & H. T. ANTHONY, / 501 Broadway, New York, Wholesale Agents."

InscribedOn mount verso, center, white label, in black type: "PHOTOGRAPHIC INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. / No. 452. / VIEW OF YORKTOWN FROM CORNWALLIS CAVE, / Confederate Water Batt's, McClellan No. 1 Bat, in the distance."

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DescriptionImage(s) taken from a high vantage point looking down onto a landscape with two tents near a tree. Several houses are in the background near the shoreline.

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