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Reekie, John
American (active 1860s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia
BOOK TITLE: --Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War--, 1866

April, 1865
PUBLISHER: Alexander Gardner
albumen print
17.7 x 22.9 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 9088
81:0004:0094

OLD GEH NUMBER: EHPC 34-6
NON-GEH NUMBER: No. 96

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Mayer, Robert A. --Blacks in America.-- Rochester, NY: George Eastman House, 1986. p. 10.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 103.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Blacks in America: A Photographic Record", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25 - March 30, 1986.//

INSCRIPTION: mount-recto (printed) "Negative by J. Reekie." "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Officew of the District of Columbia." "Positive by A. Gardner, 511 7th St., Washington." "A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Virginia." "No. 94" "April, 1865."

NOTES: Catalogued 9/88, SB, updated 2/90, DZ.

SUBJECTS:
people, burial party
landscape, burial ground
artifact, human skulls

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