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Culpeper Court House Va. Street scene – Vintage Photo Print

Culpeper Court House Va. Street scene, 1862 — historic photograph
Culpeper Court House Va. Street scene, 1862. Historic photograph from the Courthouses collection.

(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 Culpeper Court House Va. Street scene, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Culpeper Court House Va. Street scene

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Culpeper Court House, a county seat in north-central Virginia, is the place this stereograph records, and its street scene from 1862 shows a Southern town living under the strain of war. The pair of glass negatives was made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat and expose each plate on the spot, so the image captures a town at a single moment rather than a posed studio arrangement. Culpeper lay near the route of armies moving between Washington and Richmond, and the catalog links the view to the Second Battle of Bull Run that same year. The War Photograph and Exhibition Company's stereograph format was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, giving the street a sense of depth.

Created / published1862
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0109 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Bull Run 2nd Battle of Va. 1862.United States--Virginia--Culpeper Court House.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,700 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46334

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