Hancock – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Hancock comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The record identifies this glass negative only by the title "Hancock," which may refer to Union General Winfield Scott Hancock, though the sleeve note is unverified. The date is also uncertain: the record gives 1860, while a pencil note on the negative's tape reads 1877, and the image was once credited to Alexander Gardner. The wet collodion process, which coated glass plates just before exposure, was the standard method for portraits and documentary views from the early 1850s into the 1880s, so the medium fits the Civil War era. Its place in the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection shows how these fragile plates preserved the period's images.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative in pencil on tape: 1877. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,120 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49460 |
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