Sheffield. Wolf Wheel, Rivelin. Photographer: Smith, Theophilus
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Genre: Industrial Photography View looking towards the grinding-house buildings on the far side of the Rivelin. The stream is dammed in the foreground to provide water for the grinding wheels inside the building.
Jericho Mills, North Anna, Va. May, 1864. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
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Genre: War Photography View looking down onto the pontoon bridge and across the North Anna River, towards the mill buildings on the farther bank. This was the location of an action on 23 May 1864.
View of the Petersburg Gas Works. May, 1865. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
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Genre: War Photography General view of the damaged building: 'Showing in the roof, and in various other places, the damage sustained from General Grant's lines, which, during the year 1864, were advanced to within a mile and a half of this spot. A noble smoke-stack, upwards of eighty feet high,...
View on the Appomattox River, near Campbell's Bridge, Petersburg, Va., May, 1865. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
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Genre: War Photography View looking down onto the river and a group of industrial buildings: 'On the right hand side of the view here taken is introduced a portion of one of the 'Merchant Manufacturing Company's Cotton Mills,' established in the early part of the year 1832, and employing, we a...
View on canal, near Crenshaw's Mill, Richmond, Va., April, 1865. Photographer: Gardner, Alexander
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Genre: War Photography View looking along the canal towards a stone bridge and burnt-out buildings beyond: 'The principal object in this picture is the ruin of what was once one of the finest flour mills in the country. Haxall's Mill had a floor surface of eight acres, and a water-power that ne...