Baltimore St. Cumberland after a snow storm Apl. 10 1862 – Antique 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: Baltimore St. Cumberland after a snow storm Apl. 10 1862, 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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Baltimore St. Cumberland after a snow storm Apl. 10 1862
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Few pictures show a small Maryland town street so directly after a storm, and this stereo card records Baltimore Street in Cumberland the morning after a snowfall dated April 10, 1862. Cumberland sat at the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which made it a valuable and often contested link during the Civil War. The card was made by a local amateur using the wet collodion process, which required coating and exposing glass plates before they dried. It was then circulated through an amateur exchange club, one of many networks that shared stereographs among hobbyists.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card: stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Penciled on front of mount: 504. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title photographer photographers address (Cumberland MD.) date number (118) and negative (wet). Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. Title from item. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Snow--Maryland--Cumberland--1860-1870. Streets--Maryland--Cumberland--1860-1870. City & town life--Maryland--Cumberland--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,253 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268091 |
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