Surg. George Bayles 4th N.Y. heavy artillery – Historic Photograph 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 Surg. George Bayles 4th N.Y. heavy artillery. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Surg. George Bayles 4th N.Y. heavy artillery
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Surgeon George Bayles is named on this glass negative as a member of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, a unit raised during the Civil War. The record dates the negative to 1860, before the conflict began, so the regimental title was likely added later from the sleeve, and the sitter's connection to the unit deserves a closer look. The negative was made with the wet collodion process, which dominated photography in the 1850s and 1860s and required photographers to coat and expose plates while the emulsion was still wet. It was made by David B. Woodbury, a photographer active in the period who died in 1866. The glass plate survives as part of a larger Civil War negative collection at the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: 14651; tape on glass support: 1379. 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 × 2,618 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51210 |
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