Bermuda Hundred Va. Officers by their quarters near the signal tower – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Bermuda Hundred Va. Officers by their quarters near the signal tower in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bermuda Hundred Va. Officers by their quarters near the signal tower
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Officers posed outside their quarters near a signal tower at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, make this stereograph distinct from the many battlefield and camp views in the collection. The scene was recorded in 1864, when Union forces under Benjamin Butler had dug in on the bend of the James River south of Richmond, and signal stations like this one relayed messages across the lines. Photographer James F. Gibson, who worked for Alexander Gardner's studio, made the image on a wet collodion glass negative, and the two plates together create a stereo pair meant for viewing through a stereoscope.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0327 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Communications. Signal towers.United States--Virginia--Bermuda Hundred. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,348 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52515 |
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