Washington District of Columbia. Wiard 6-pdr. Gun at the Arsenal – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington District of Columbia. Wiard 6-pdr. Gun at the Arsenal. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington District of Columbia. Wiard 6-pdr. Gun at the Arsenal
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A rifled six-pounder made by the Wiard company of Ilion, New York, sits on the grounds of the Washington Arsenal in this 1862 view. The arsenal, on the Potomac at the southern edge of the city, was a major Union ordnance depot, where guns were stored, tested and issued to troops in the capital's defenses. Wiard's light field guns were among the designs the Union army adopted in the early years of the war, when the North was still equipping its batteries with a mix of makers' models. The picture was made with a wet collodion glass negative, the process that dominated photography during the Civil War. The photographer is credited as David B. Woodbury, who documented Washington's military installations during the conflict.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Six-pounder Wiard Gun. 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 | 4,154 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51660 |
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