White House Landing Va. View down river with supply vessels – Vintage Wall Art
(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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White House Landing Va. View down river with supply vessels
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White House Landing, on the Pamunkey River in Virginia, served as the Union army's main supply point during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, and this view looks down the river toward the vessels that carried food, ammunition, and equipment to George B. McClellan's troops. The landing took its name from a plantation once connected to the family of Mary Custis Lee. David B. Woodbury made the picture on a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the plate to be coated and exposed before it dried, which makes field views from this period far less common than studio portraits.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0057 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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--Equipment and supplies. Peninsular Campaign 1862. Government vessels.United States--Virginia--White House Landing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,320 × 1,340 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51823 |
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