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Cannon, Fortress Monroe

Alexander Gardner

Credit: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
c. 1864
Albumen silver print from glass negative
20.2 x 24.8cm
2005.100.1225
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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