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[Cumberland Landing, Va. Contrabands on Foller's farm]

Gibson, James F.,b. 1828,photographer.

1862 May 14.

NOTES

No. 0055

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, The Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

Shows about twenty ex-slaves sitting in front of cabin, excellent photograph.

SUBJECTS
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Afro-Americans.
Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
Wet plate negatives.

MEDIUM
1 negative : glass, wet collodion.

CALL NUMBER
LC-B811-0383

REPRODUCTION
LC-B8171-0383 DLC (b&w film neg.)

COLLECTION
Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

From The Civil War and the Internet, Copyright 1995. R. Muns.