Washington District of Columbia (vicinity). Headquarters of Gen. Gershom Mott – Vintage Photo Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington District of Columbia (vicinity). Headquarters of Gen. Gershom Mott. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington District of Columbia (vicinity). Headquarters of Gen. Gershom Mott
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Few pictures in this set show a wartime headquarters at the moment of its occupation, and this one records the site of Gen. Gershom Mott's command in the Washington area in June 1865, weeks after Confederate armies had surrendered. Mott, a New Jersey officer, had led a division in the Army of the Potomac, and by then the camps and offices around the capital were being wound down as volunteer regiments mustered out. The image was made on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed before it dried. It was taken by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Headquarters of General Gershom Mott June 1865. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,156 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51470 |
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