[Yorktown, Va., vicinity. Topographical engineers, Camp Winfield Scott] (LOC)

    Gibson, James F.,, b. 1828,, photographer.

    [Yorktown, Va., vicinity. Topographical engineers, Camp Winfield Scott]

    1862 May 2.

    1 negative : glass, stereograph, wet collodion ; 4 x 10 in.

    Notes:
     Photo shows a group of nine men posed in front of a tent with a surveying instrument at left. The two men seated center and right are most likely Frederick W. Door and John W. Donn. The officer seated to the left is William H. Paine who invented the steel tape reel worn by the man standing on the right. Standing second from right appears to be Allan Pinkerton. (Source: U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, 2011, www.topogs.org/Camp_Winfield_Scott.html). Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

    Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
    Corresponding print is in LOT 4188.
    Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0030
    Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

    Subjects:
     Peninsular Campaign, 1862.
    Engineers.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel.
    United States--Virginia--Yorktown.

    Format: Glass negatives--1860-1870.
    Stereographs--1860-1870.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Part Of: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) (DLC) 94837675

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00124

    Call Number: LC-B815- 366

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    2. jamesvoves (22 months ago | reply)

      Pinkerton is buried on the north side of Chicago, near Cubs Park

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