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- GLC#
- GLC05111.01.0397-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1865/04 ca.
- Title
- Petersburg Gas Works and rubble of smokestack. [April 1865 ca.]
- Place Written
- Petersburg, Virginia
- 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. Image of what remains of the Gas Works building with gaping holes, caused by artillery fire, in its walls. The pile of bricks in the foreground is all that remains of the once-famous 80-foot-tall somkestack. Federal artillery used it for target practice until it finally collapsed. Numeric notation: "1021 XI - IV."
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