Warrenton Va. Outskirts of town with courthouse in distance – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Warrenton Va. Outskirts of town with courthouse in distance. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Warrenton Va. Outskirts of town with courthouse in distance
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Warrenton, the county seat of Fauquier County, Virginia, appears here as open ground on the edge of town, with the courthouse visible in the distance. The picture dates to 1862, when armies moved repeatedly through the Virginia Piedmont on their way toward the Second Battle of Bull Run. Made as a wet collodion glass negative for a stereograph, it was one of many views of wartime sites that the War Photograph and Exhibition Company issued for viewers eager to see places they had read about. The courthouse, a familiar civic landmark, stands quietly while the war passes through the town around it.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0118 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Bull Run 2nd Battle of Va. 1862. Courthouses.United States--Virginia--Warrenton. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,712 × 1,354 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46342 |
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