Signal Station on Pony Mountain – Vintage Print
![Signal Station on Pony Mountain, [1863 September] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/09/095d545671f3-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Signal Station on Pony Mountain, preserved in this historic drawing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Signal Station on Pony Mountain
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Pony Mountain in Virginia is the setting for this small pencil and Chinese white drawing on tan paper, dated September 1863. The sheet measures just 9.1 by 10.2 centimeters, so the artist worked at a modest scale, sketching the signal station and its surroundings in quick, economical lines. Signal stations like this one, set on high ground, were part of the Union Army Signal Corps network, which relayed messages across long distances by flag and lamp during the Civil War. The Signal Corps depended on such hilltop posts to keep armies informed of enemy movements, which made these lookouts strategically important.
| Created / published | [1863 September] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on tan paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 9.1 x 10.2 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | United States.--Army.--Signal Corps--1860-1870. Military camps--1860-1870. Signal stations--1860-1870. Signal towers--1860-1870. Soldiers--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Communications.United States--Virginia--Pony Mountain |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,376 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112773 |
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