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Crossing the Appomattox River, Appomattox Court House, Virginia

LIBI_00019_00240; This item is a silver gelatin print postcard of the land around Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The postcard is 3 1/2 x 5 1/2" and was produced circa 1914 commissioned by A.L. Cheney of Morrisville, Vermont. This item was a part of a photographic series and on the front of the postcard, written in blue ink on the bottom center, is a handwritten notation in blue ink reads either "No. 9" or "No. 7." Some hazing is evident on the lower left portion of the image. On the verso, a handwritten notation in blue ink reads: "Appomattox C.H./Lynchburg Pike at Appomattox C.H. Crossing Appomattox River, but a brook here. In the edge of the corn field at the left under its drop stood the apple tree beside the road where Col. Babcock found Gen. Lee when sent to bear him to the McLean house to meet Gen. Grant. Lee's headquarters were on the estate's hillside just this side of the woods shown at the right of the tree near the Appomattox. The picture is taken in the valley just over the little rid

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Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, LIBI_00019_00240, A L. Cheney, "Crossing the Appomattox River, Appomattox Court House, Virginia [No. 7 or No. 9 in the series]," circa 1914

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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Code: LIBI

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Big Horn County, Montana
Latitude: 45.5651016235352, Longitude: -107.429000854492

NPS Museum Accession Number : LIBI-00019
NPS Museum Number Catalog : LIBI_00240

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Historic Photo Collection

Title: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument Historic Photo Collection
URL: https://www.nps.gov/libi

circa 1914

01/01/1914 - 12/30/1914

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A. L. Cheney Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Organization: Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Position: Research Requests
Address: PO Box 39, Crow Agency, MT, USA, 59033, (406) 638-2621
Email: libi_librarian@nps.gov

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Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument