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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0392-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1861-1865
- Title
- Examining passes at Georgetown Ferry, Mason's Island, Washington D.C.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 photograph Height: 10.8 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Title from inscription on verso. A guard checks the passes of two men while two additional guards stand behind him. One is docked along the river bank with an artillery gun, limber and crew. Another barge slowly crosses the river in the distance. Numeric notation: "XXX 290." Image identical to .0710.
See GLC 5111.01.0710
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