Wilcoxs Landing Va. vicinity of Charles City Court House. Field telegraph station – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Wilcoxs Landing Va. vicinity of Charles City Court House. Field telegraph station in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Wilcoxs Landing Va. vicinity of Charles City Court House. Field telegraph station
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Wilcox's Landing, on the James River near the Charles City Court House in Virginia, is the setting for this 1864 stereograph of a field telegraph station. Union forces relied on portable telegraph lines like this one to pass orders between headquarters and the army's scattered units during the campaigns of 1864. The image was published by E. & H.T. Anthony, a New York firm that sold stereo views to a wide public, and it was made as a wet collodion glass negative. Its subject heading links it to the Wilderness fighting, a reminder of how quickly communications had to follow an advancing army.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph 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. 0321 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Communications. Wilderness Battle of the Va. 1864. Telegraph.United States--Virginia--Wilcoxs Landing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,364 × 1,360 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52828 |
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