Virginians going to the commissary for rations – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Virginians going to the commissary for rations. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Virginians going to the commissary for rations
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Most wartime drawings of Virginia show armies in the field, but this one turns to the civilians behind the lines: women and families from the Rappahannock Station area lining up at a commissary to collect rations in February 1864. By that winter, the Confederate economy around the Rappahannock was under severe strain, and food shortages pushed many nonsoldier households to depend on official distributions. The drawing is part of a larger Civil War collection that the Library of Congress received as a gift from J.P. Morgan in 1919, and its record lists the scene under both military rations and women, making it a useful glimpse of home-front hardship.
| Created / published | 1864 Feb. 18. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.190) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | Military rations--1860-1870. Women--1860-1870.United States--Virginia--Rappahannock Station |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115167 |
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