White House Landing, Pamunkey River – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of White House Landing, Pamunkey River brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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White House Landing, Pamunkey River
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Paddle steamers and the Quartermaster Corps' river traffic set this view of White House Landing apart from the other pictures of the site. The landing on the Pamunkey River served as a Union supply base, and the caption tracings point to side-wheel steamboats moving stores there under quartermaster oversight. The landing had also been the former estate of the White House plantation, tied to the Custis family and to Robert E. Lee's wife, Mary Custis Lee. The date of about 1864 places it during the Overland Campaign, when the landing was central to feeding Union armies in central Virginia.
| Created / published | ca. 1864. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Side-wheelers; Steamboats--Misc.; C.W.--Quartermaster Corps.; Va.--W- H- L-; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 934 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135745 |
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