Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad – Antique Wall Art
(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: Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Virginia. Locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
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A locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, photographed in Virginia in 1862, makes this view a record of a working line rather than a battlefield. The railroad ran southwest from Alexandria through Manassas Junction, a rail hub that changed hands several times during the war and was central to the Second Battle of Bull Run that August. This is a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical wet-collodion glass negatives meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. Such views were popular with the public during the war, and they show how dependent both armies were on the rail lines.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0121 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--Transportation. Bull Run 2nd Battle of Va. 1862. Railroad locomotives.United States--Virginia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,756 × 1,372 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46340 |
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