Petersburg Virginia. Company H 114th Pennsylvania Infantry – Historic Photograph 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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Step back in time with Petersburg Virginia. Company H 114th Pennsylvania Infantry, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Petersburg Virginia. Company H 114th Pennsylvania Infantry
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A company of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry, a regiment that fought in the Zouave style, is posed in front of Petersburg, Virginia, in August 1864, according to the caption on the negative sleeve. The Zouave name, borrowed from French colonial troops, was used by Union regiments that favored flashy uniforms early in the war. David B. Woodbury, who photographed the Petersburg siege lines that year, made the image on a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the plate to be coated and exposed before it dried. The record also notes a conflicting company letter inked on the negative's emulsion side, a reminder that field photographs were often labeled in haste.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Co. H. 114th Pennsylvania Inantry in front of Petersburg Va. August 1864. Annotation from negative emulsion side: Co. G. 114th VA Zouaves No 7 (sleeve identifies them as 114th PA Zouaves). 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 × 4,187 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50513 |
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