St. Augustine Florida. Entrance gate – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of St. Augustine Florida. Entrance gate. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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St. Augustine Florida. Entrance gate
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The gate pictured here stood at the entrance to St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the continental United States, and the photograph was taken in 1861, the year Florida seceded and the Civil War began. Its two halves were exposed as a stereograph pair, meant to be seen together through a handheld viewer that gave the scene depth and was popular in parlors of the era. The glass negatives were made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each plate before the emulsion dried. The record credits David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, and the pair is part of the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Entrance Gate St. Augustine Fla. 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 | 4,449 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51173 |
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