Bealton Virginia. Company K 93rd New York Infantry – Historic 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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Bealton Virginia. Company K 93rd New York Infantry comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bealton Virginia. Company K 93rd New York Infantry
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This glass negative records a company of the 93rd New York Infantry, identified by its written caption as Company K, photographed at Bealton, Virginia, in August 1863. Bealton, a station on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in Fauquier County, was a camp area for the Army of the Potomac that summer, so the picture shows a unit in the field during a lull between campaigns. The wet collodion process, used widely in the early 1860s, required quick exposures and fragile glass plates, which is part of why such images are valued today. A later annotation on the glass, dated 1865, suggests the plate passed through military hands after the war. The negative was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution has since been questioned.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Co. K. 93rd New York Inf. Bealton Va. Aug. 1863. Annotation from negative glass side: Co. K. 93rd NY. V. Head Qrs Grand Dupt Army Potomac Aug 1865 508 THOS . 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 | 5,120 × 4,157 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47119 |
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