Wood and Gibson
Moore House, Yorktown, Virginia
1862
Captured during the Peninsula Campaign, this albumen print documents the Moore House where British General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington in 1781. Part of Alexander Gardner's groundbreaking photographic documentation of the Civil War, it represents one of the earliest systematic attempts to record American history through photography.
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- Albumen print, pl. 15 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
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