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Soldier's theatre, (Fourteenth Brooklyn) in an old warehouse in Culpeper Court House, Va. / EF. – Antique Print

Soldier's theatre, (Fourteenth Brooklyn) in an old warehouse in Culpeper Court House, Va. / EF., 1864 Jan. — historic drawing
Soldier's theatre, (Fourteenth Brooklyn) in an old warehouse in Culpeper Court House, Va. / EF., 1864 Jan.. Historic drawing from the Brooklyn 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Soldier's theatre, (Fourteenth Brooklyn) in an old warehouse in Culpeper Court House, Va. / EF.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A pencil drawing dated January 1864 shows a makeshift stage built inside an old warehouse at Culpeper Court House, Virginia, where soldiers of the Fourteenth Brooklyn regiment had gathered during the winter encampment. The regiment came from Brooklyn, and its men spent that season near Culpeper while the Army of the Potomac rested and regrouped after the fighting of 1863. Soldier-run theatricals like this one gave men a way to pass the long idle months between campaigns. The sketch is signed only "EF," so the artist is unidentified, but its careful rendering of the stage and seating offers a glimpse of camp life away from the battlefield.

Created / published1864 Jan.
Medium1 drawing : pencil.
GenreDrawings American 1860-1870.
NotesGift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.182) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection.
SubjectsTheaters--1860-1870. Stages (Platforms)--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Union.United States--Virginia--Culpeper
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,384 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-115169

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