Yorktown Virginia. Captain Perkins Sesesh horse captured at Cornwallis cave – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 historic photograph of Yorktown Virginia. Captain Perkins Sesesh horse captured at Cornwallis cave brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yorktown Virginia. Captain Perkins Sesesh horse captured at Cornwallis cave
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A horse identified as belonging to a Confederate captain named Perkins, taken at Cornwallis Cave near Yorktown, Virginia, is the subject here, which places the scene on the Peninsula in 1861, when Confederate forces were fortifying the area in the war's first months. The picture survives as a stereograph, two glass negatives made side by side so that a viewer with a stereoscope sees depth. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made it using the wet collodion process, which required coating and exposing each plate before the emulsion dried.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Capt. Perkins Sesesh horse captured at Cornwallis Cave Yorktown Va. 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 | 5,103 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51741 |
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