Sgt. Boston Corbett – 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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A window into the past: Sgt. Boston Corbett, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Sgt. Boston Corbett
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This glass negative is labeled with the name Boston Corbett, the man later known for shooting John Wilkes Booth in 1865. The 1860 date falls before Corbett's Civil War service, however, and the title comes from the negative sleeve and remains unverified. The Boston photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made the plate using the wet collodion process, which dominated studio portraiture in the 1850s and 1860s. Its place in the Library of Congress Civil War glass negative collection shows how such plates were later gathered and catalogued around the war's history.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. 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 | 3,278 × 5,120 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51090 |
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