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R.E. Lee – Historic Print

R.E. Lee, 1860 — historic photograph
R.E. Lee, 1860. Historic photograph from the Gettysburg 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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This rare historic photograph captures R.E. Lee in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The sleeve that came with this glass negative labels the sitter Robert E. Lee, but that title is unverified, so the identification should be read with caution. If the date of 1860 holds, Lee was then a colonel in the United States Army, three years before he took command of the Army of Northern Virginia and led it into the fighting at Gettysburg in 1863. The image is a wet collodion negative made by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866. That process required photographers to coat and expose each plate while it was still wet, and the collection it belongs to is now held by the Library of Congress.

Created / published1860
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesTitle from unverified information on negative sleeve. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan2,841 × 4,704 px · prints to 9 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-50699

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