Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey – 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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Step back in time with Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey
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Cumberland Landing, on the Pamunkey River in Virginia, served as a supply base for the Army of the Potomac during George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign in 1862, and this view shows the army's encampment there. It survives as a stereograph, a pair of glass negatives that, viewed through a stereoscope, produced a three-dimensional effect that was popular with home audiences at the time. The picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a well-known Civil War photographer, but that attribution has since been set aside.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Encampment of Army of Potomac at Cumberland Landing Pamunkey River 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 | 4,872 × 3,993 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48252 |
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