Portrait of Maj. Gen. George G. Meade officer of the Federal Army and staff vicinit – Vintage 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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Portrait of Maj. Gen. George G. Meade officer of the Federal Army and staff vicinit
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George G. Meade, who took command of the Army of the Potomac just days before the fighting at Gettysburg in 1863, sat for this 1865 portrait with members of his staff nearby, as the title notes. The image was made on a glass wet collodion negative, the standard process of the period, which required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate within minutes. By the time it was taken, Meade had led the Union's largest field army through its hardest battles and was nearing the end of the war, which gives the portrait a quiet weight beyond the formal pose.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0953 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. Meade George G. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,682 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52053 |
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