Alexandria Virginia. Soldiers rest – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Alexandria Virginia. Soldiers rest. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Alexandria Virginia. Soldiers rest
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Few images from the early war show ordinary soldiers at ease as plainly as this glass negative, labeled "Soldiers rest" and taken in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1861. Alexandria sat just across the Potomac from Washington and was occupied by Union troops within days of Virginia's secession vote, so it filled quickly with men in the first months of the conflict. The wet collodion process of the period required long exposures and a steady subject, which makes the relaxed poses of the men here especially worth noticing. The record also notes that the picture was formerly attributed to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, a reminder of how often early attributions shifted as the collection was studied.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Soldiers rest Alexandria Va. Miller vol. 7 p. 331. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,026 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46923 |
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