Rappahannock Station Virginia. Officers of 50th New York Engineers – Vintage 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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Rappahannock Station Virginia. Officers of 50th New York Engineers comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rappahannock Station Virginia. Officers of 50th New York Engineers
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Officers of the 50th New York Engineers gathered at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, in March 1864, a few months after Union and Confederate forces fought over the crossing in November 1863. The 50th was a New York engineer regiment that built and repaired the bridges and roads the Army of the Potomac relied on, so the men pictured were part of the work that kept the army supplied and moving. David B. Woodbury made the image on a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed before it dried. That method makes the picture a useful record of a winter camp and of the officers who ran it.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Offices of 50th N. Y. Engineers Rappahannock Station. March 1864. Annotation from negative glass side: 3. 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 × 4,130 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50727 |
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