Shipyard scene with Long Bridge stretching into the distance
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1295 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 carte de visite 6.4 x 9.5 cm Order a Copy
Ink inscription on recto "-ntered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of--." Graphite inscription on verso "2.00-" "25." Photographers imprint on verso: "Brady's album Gallery. No. 100. Long Bridge. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Barnard & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia. The Photographs of this series were taken directly from nature, at considerable cost. Warning is therefore given that legal proceedings will be at once instituted against any party infinging the copyright."
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