Atlanta Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Atlanta Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Atlanta Ga. City Hall; camp of 2d Massachusetts Infantry on the grounds
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Few Civil War views show a Union camp set up on the grounds of a municipal building, but this stereograph does: the camp of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry pitched beside Atlanta's City Hall in 1864. Atlanta fell to Union forces under William T. Sherman in September of that year, and occupying troops used the city's public buildings and open ground for quarters. Made as a pair of glass wet-collodion plates, the view was meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave it depth. Its publisher, the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, sold such views to a public eager for images of the war.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph 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. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Atlanta Campaign 1864 City & town halls. Infantry. 2nd Massachusetts Infantry.United States--Georgia--Atlanta. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,106 × 1,344 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46182 |
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