T.C.H. Smith 1st Ohio Cav. – Historic Photograph 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: T.C.H. Smith 1st Ohio Cav., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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T.C.H. Smith 1st Ohio Cav.
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The sitter's name and regiment, T.C.H. Smith of the 1st Ohio Cavalry, come from a note on the negative's sleeve that has not been verified. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required a photographer to coat, sensitize and expose a glass plate before the coating dried, which made both studio and field work demanding. The recorded date of 1860 falls before the war, so the cavalry label may reflect a later identification rather than the moment the picture was made. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866, and the negative now belongs to a Civil War glass negative collection at the Library of Congress.
| 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 | 4,156 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51254 |
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