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Hotel at Sulpher Springs, Virginia

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0799 Author/Creator: Place Written: Sulpher Springs, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1862 Pagination: 1 photograph 9.5 x 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Image of a hotel at Sulpher Springs, Virginia, mostly hidden by trees, with a tent just beyond the stairs to the entrance. Inscription on verso: "Hotel at Sulpher Springs, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "66." Additional inscription on verso: "[2nd Bull Run] [1862]."

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