Big Black River Station Miss. Wagons and sheds – Antique Photo 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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Big Black River Station Miss. Wagons and sheds comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Big Black River Station Miss. Wagons and sheds
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Big Black River Station, a supply point in Mississippi, is the setting here, with wagons and sheds set out in the open ground that served the Union army's operations in the region. The stereograph was made in 1864, after the fall of Vicksburg in July 1863 had opened the Mississippi River to Union control and turned the surrounding country into a network of depots and supply routes. Taken with a wet collodion glass negative, the image was printed by the firm of Taylor & Huntington, whose stereo views of the war were widely sold to the public. Logistics like these wagons and sheds were the unglamorous backbone of the campaign, and the picture is worth a look for that reason.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0675 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Taylor & Huntington publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege 1863. Carts & wagons.United States--Mississippi--Big Black River Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,416 × 1,372 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46410 |
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