Custer – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Custer. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The sleeve for this glass negative gives the title "Custer," which may refer to George Armstrong Custer, the cavalry officer who became one of the best-known figures of the Civil War, though the identification is unverified. The picture is dated 1860, a year before the war began, and it was made with the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat, expose and develop each glass plate within minutes. Alexander Gardner, who later made well-known Civil War photographs, was once credited as its maker, but that attribution is no longer accepted. Shown among Gettysburg images, it is best read as an example of photographic practice on the eve of the war.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 637 × 1,030 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48262 |
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