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Lexington, Virginia in the 1870's
home of Washington and Lee University

from a 16x20 glass plate negative
that I contact-printed as a student
on a sheet of 11x14 paper

It was taken by Michael Miley
who also made many photographs
of Gen. Robert E. Lee after the War
when Lee was President of Washington College

Miley used a wet-plate glass negative process
which allowed him to make many contact prints
much like I did

A pretty good, 4.9MB JPG is available
here

and the full, 89 MB, 16000x13000 TIF is
HERE