Petersburg Virginia. Group of Engineers and Draughtsmen headquarters Army of the Po – Vintage Photo 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: Petersburg Virginia. Group of Engineers and Draughtsmen headquarters Army of the Po, 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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Petersburg Virginia. Group of Engineers and Draughtsmen headquarters Army of the Po
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Taken at Petersburg, Virginia, in November 1864, this wet collodion glass negative shows a group of engineers and draftsmen at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. By then the city had been under siege for several months, and the army's engineers were busy surveying lines, drawing maps, and planning the trenches and earthworks that stretched around it. The men pictured turned field observations into the working maps that commanders relied on during the stalemate. The photographer was David B. Woodbury, who worked with the army during the war and died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of Engineers and Draughtsmen Head Quarters Army of the Potomac Nov. 1864. Annotation from negative glass side: group of engineers [and] draughtsmen A. P. [?] NO.106 NOV. 1864. 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 × 4,063 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50447 |
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