Camp architecture, Brandy Station, Va. – 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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Step back in time with Camp architecture, Brandy Station, Va., 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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Camp architecture, Brandy Station, Va.
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Winter quarters at Brandy Station, Virginia, make this view of camp architecture from January 1864 distinctive. The site had seen one of the largest cavalry battles of the war in June 1863, and by winter the Army of the Potomac had settled there in rows of log huts, chimneys and plank doors built for shelter against the cold. Alexander Gardner published the view in his Photographic Sketchbook of the War, working from a negative made by T.H. O'Sullivan, and it documents how soldiers turned open fields into lived-in camps.
| Created / published | 1864 Jan. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Alexander Gardner from neg. by T.H. O'Sullivan, Jan. 1864. Illus. in: Gardner, Photographic Sketchbook, vol. II, pl. 57. Civil War Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Dwellings; C.W.--Camps; C.W.-; Va.--Brandy Station; Architecture. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,204 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142520 |
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