Sunday Morning Mass. Camp of 69th N.Y. SM – 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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A window into the past: Sunday Morning Mass. Camp of 69th N.Y. SM, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Sunday Morning Mass. Camp of 69th N.Y. SM
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A Sunday morning mass held in the camp of the 69th New York gives this glass negative its particular subject, a religious service set among a military encampment. The 69th was a New York militia regiment drawn largely from the city's Irish Catholic community, and it became well known when it marched off to war in 1861. The record dates the negative to 1860, which would place it before the conflict began, and the title comes from an unverified note on the negative sleeve, so the exact setting deserves some caution. The wet collodion process used here required photographers to coat, expose, and develop each plate while it was still wet, which makes these negatives a useful record of how early camp photography was made.
| 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). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 3,425 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51200 |
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