Arlington Virginia. Big gun at Fort Woodbury – 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 Arlington Virginia. Big gun at Fort Woodbury. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Arlington Virginia. Big gun at Fort Woodbury
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A large cannon at Fort Woodbury, in Arlington, Virginia, is the subject here, a fortification in the ring of Union defenses that rose around Washington after the war began in 1861. The picture survives as a stereograph, two glass negatives that form the left and right halves of a pair, so that a viewer using a stereoscope would see one image with depth. The wet collodion process behind these plates required each glass to be coated and exposed before it dried, which made fieldwork slow and demanding. The pair was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a photographer active in the Washington area during the war, though that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Big Gun at Fort Woodbury VA. 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 | 4,108 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47026 |
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