Rappahannock Station Virginia. Winter camp of 50th New York Engineers – Antique 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 Rappahannock Station Virginia. Winter camp of 50th New York Engineers in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rappahannock Station Virginia. Winter camp of 50th New York Engineers
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The camp shown here belonged to the 50th New York Engineers, a regiment whose men spent much of the war building bridges, roads, and fortifications for the Army of the Potomac. The caption dates the scene to March 1864, when the army was in winter quarters along the Rappahannock River in Virginia, after fighting at Rappahannock Station the previous autumn. The photograph was made on a wet collodion glass negative by David B. Woodbury, who documented Union camps and army life during the war. Wet collodion plates were fragile and required the photographer to coat and expose them quickly, which makes surviving views of winter camps like this one valuable records of daily soldier life.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Winter camp of 50th New York Engineers Rappahannock Station March 1864. Annotation from negative glass side: 6. 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 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50731 |
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