Brandy Station Va. Dinner party outside tent Army of the Potomac headquarters – 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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Step back in time with Brandy Station Va. Dinner party outside tent Army of the Potomac headquarters, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Brandy Station Va. Dinner party outside tent Army of the Potomac headquarters
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Few pictures from the war show officers at leisure, and this stereograph records a dinner party held outside a tent at Army of the Potomac headquarters near Brandy Station, Virginia, in 1864. The camp was a cavalry center where the army regrouped after the fighting of 1863, so the scene reflects the routine of a large headquarters rather than the battlefield. Made as a glass negative using the wet collodion process, the image was issued as a stereograph, a paired photograph viewed through a stereoscope to create a three-dimensional effect. Its survival in the Library of Congress collection makes it a useful record of how officers lived between campaigns.
| 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. 0282 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military life. Eating & drinking.United States--Virginia--Brandy Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,456 × 1,362 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46629 |
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