Portrait of Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet officer of the Confederate Army – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Portrait of Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet officer of the Confederate Army in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Portrait of Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet officer of the Confederate Army
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A portrait of James Longstreet, who would later rise to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army, is dated 1860, several months before the Civil War began. In that year he was still a U.S. Army officer, so the sitting captures him before the war turned him into one of the Confederacy's best-known corps commanders. The glass negative was made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat and expose the plate while it was still wet. The image was made by James F. Gibson, a photographer active in the period, and it appears in a Library of Congress collection of Civil War photographs.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 1036 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Longstreet James. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 940 × 1,354 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52033 |
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