New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera-2006.

Union Signal Tower, Peebles Farm, Petersburg, Virginia

Artist Unknown

Date1864

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in. (24.1 × 19.4 cm)
Overall, Paper: 10 1/16 × 8 7/16 in. (25.6 × 21.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 1/8 × 16 1/16 in. (51.1 × 40.8 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.105

Terms

U.S. Civil War
Men
Military affairs
Petersburg, Virginia

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. A sepia toned photograph of a wooden construction in a dusty field. Planks are criss-crossed into X patterns. The base starts out wide and comes in gradually narrower. There is a ladder going up the interior of the piece and on top there is a platform with a man standing on top of it. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_(Hack Collection No. 2].