Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Major G. 50th New York Engineers – Historic Reproduction
(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 (vicinity). Major G. 50th New York Engineers, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Major G. 50th New York Engineers
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This photograph records Major G. of the 50th New York Engineers, photographed in the countryside around Petersburg, Virginia, in 1865. By then the city had been under siege for nearly ten months, and the armies around it depended on engineer regiments like the 50th to build roads, corduroy causeways, and pontoon bridges across the marshy ground and rivers of the region. The image was made on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each plate within minutes. It was taken by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, and it belongs to a larger body of Civil War glass negatives that documents the war's officers and sites.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. 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 × 4,106 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50463 |
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