Washington D.C. Georgetown ferry-boat carrying wagons and Aqueduct Bridge beyond fr – Antique 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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Washington D.C. Georgetown ferry-boat carrying wagons and Aqueduct Bridge beyond fr comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Washington D.C. Georgetown ferry-boat carrying wagons and Aqueduct Bridge beyond fr
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A ferry loaded with wagons crosses the Potomac in this 1860 stereograph, with the Aqueduct Bridge visible in the distance. The bridge carried the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal over the river between Georgetown and the Virginia shore, so the scene links the canal, the bridge, and the ferry that worked the same stretch of water. Made with the wet collodion process on glass plates, the two halves form a pair meant to produce a three-dimensional view in a stereoscope. Although it predates the Civil War by a year, the picture was later grouped with the war photographs, and it shows the river traffic of a city on the edge of that conflict.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph 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. 0747 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Washington (D.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Canals. Bridges. Ferries.United States--District of Columbia--Washington. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46313 |
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