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Examining passes at Georgetown Ferry, Mason's Island, Washington D.C.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0392 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington D.C. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 10.8 x 12.7 cm Order a Copy

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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