Metadata Content type Content type Image Collection(s) Collection(s) Encyclopedia Virginia Title Title Title African American Union Army Cook Resource Type Resource Type Image Description Description An African American cook tends to steaming cauldrons of food in this glass-plate photograph. The image was taken in a camp at City Point sometime between June 1864 and April 1865, during the siege of Petersburg. Local Identifier Local Identifier evr8270 Persons Persons Unknown: Creator (cre) Genre Genre Photographs Wet collodion glass-plate negative one half of stereograph Subject Subject City Point African American cooks African American soldiers Note Note Note Type date/sequential designation Note ca. June 1864 to April 1865 Note Type creation/production credits Note Library of Congress URL URL http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000544/PP/ Restriction on Access Restriction on Access Open
