Photographs from City Point in the Alice Mason Collection, Boston Athenaeum
Four Photographs by John Reekie, medical supply boat "Planter"
LC 12593. "Medical Supply Boat, Appomattox Landing, Virginia," photograph by John Reekie. Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, v. 2, no. 72. Photo of the Hospital wharf, City Point.
A succession of four photographs depicting the "Planter" by John Reekie. Identifiable by the one negative that Gardner included in his sketchbook and attributed. The images seem to have been taken about half an hour apart (camera movement and shadows). Other captions label this the Hospital Wharf, which makes sense. These four images capture a sense of the shipping activity at City Point.
LC 02056. "[City Point, Va., vicinity. Medical supply boat Planter at General Hospital wharf on the Appomattox]," photographer unattributed, likely Reekie.
Stern of the "Planter" from 02056.
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LC 02054. "City Point, Virginia (vicinity). Hospital wharf on Appomattox," photographer unattributed. Stern of the "Planter visible on the left.
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LC 00508. "Appomattox River, Virginia. Medical supply boat PLANTER." Unattributed stereograph.
LC 08249. "View at City Point headquarters, hospital, with old school houses, barns &c." photograph by Andrew J. Russell.
LC 01977. "City Point, Virginia,"unattributed stereograph.
