Preparing Cotton for the Gin
Artist
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
(American, born Ireland, 1840 - 1882)
Date1862
MediumAlbumen stereograph
DimensionsImage and sheet (both): 2 15/16 × 5 13/16 inches (7.46 × 14.76 cm)
Mount: 3 3/16 × 6 3/4 inches (8.1 × 17.15 cm)
Mount: 3 3/16 × 6 3/4 inches (8.1 × 17.15 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3684
SignedOn mount verso, center, white label, in black type: "From / Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th & D streets, / Washington, D.C. / Negative by T.O. Sullivan. / E. & H. T. ANTHONY, 501 Broadway, New York, Wholesale Agents."
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black type: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Alex. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.";
On mount verso, center, white label, in black type: "PHOTOGRAPHIC INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. / No. 159. / PREPARING COTTON FOR THE GIN.".
MarkingsOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Fourteen";
On mount verso, upper right corner, in black pen: "200-";
On mount verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "195-";
On mount verso, center right, in pencil: "Beaufort, S.C. / J.J. Smith / Plantation";
On mount verso, center left, red and white label, in black pen: "Hilton - / No. 78.";
On mount verso, lower left, in pencil: "396AT5";
On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "44A25" / "t10".
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