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Cumberland Landing, Va. Secret Service men at Foller’s House
Photographer: James F. Gibson
Taken: May 1862
Caption: Cumberland Landing, Va. Secret Service men at Foller’s House
Additional Description: “Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.” Via the Library of Congress. Seated in the distance smoking a pipe is reported to be Allen Pinkerton of Pinkerton Detective Agency fame. He was chief of McClellan’s secret service. Original is a glass stereograph wet collodion 4x10 in. negative. This is the image on the left side.
Submitted: August 23, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p395696
File Size: 1.845 Megabytes

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