Yorktown – 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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Yorktown comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yorktown, Virginia, was the site of a siege in the spring of 1862, when Union forces under George B. McClellan advanced up the Virginia Peninsula and pressed the Confederate defenses there until the Confederates withdrew in early May. This picture survives as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical images that, viewed through a stereoscope, appear to have depth. It was made from wet collodion glass negatives, the standard process of the period, and it was taken by photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866. Its two halves are catalogued separately, and the number 363 scratched into the negative emulsion helps identify it within the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: 363. 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 × 5,096 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51712 |
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