Few photographs appear to be made or survived of mid-19th century aspects of papermaking, printing or book production. Ironically two of the more interesting ones preserved in the Library of Congress are stereo views made by the Scottish photographer
Alexander Gardner in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War.
These are very slightly different images photographed by Gardner of the ruins of a paper mill with water-wheel in Richmond, Virginia.
Gardner was very distinctive in appearance. This photograph of him is preserved in the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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