The leisurely pursuit – Vintage Print
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(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: The leisurely pursuit, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Taken at Berlin, Maryland, a Potomac River town where Union troops crossed in late June 1863, this view carries the title *The leisurely pursuit*, a wry phrase for an army trailing an enemy it had not yet caught. That march north led directly to the fighting at Gettysburg a few days later. The photograph dates from 1863 and is labeled as a Brady picture, a reference to Mathew Brady's studio, which sent a large crew of photographers into the field during the war. This halftone print was made about 1911, when Civil War photographs were widely reproduced in books and magazines.
| Created / published | [photographed 1863, c1911] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | K25630 U.S. Copyright Office. On mount: Brady photo."" |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles. Armies--Union--Maryland--Berlin--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-189215 |
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