Arlington Virginia. Soldiers of 4th New York heavy Artillery loading 24-pdr. siege – 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: Arlington Virginia. Soldiers of 4th New York heavy Artillery loading 24-pdr. siege, 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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Arlington Virginia. Soldiers of 4th New York heavy Artillery loading 24-pdr. siege
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Soldiers of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery are shown loading a 24-pounder siege gun at Arlington, Virginia, in 1862. The two glass plates form a stereograph pair, so the scene was meant to be seen through a stereo viewer for a three-dimensional effect. Heavy guns like this were mounted in the ring of fortifications that protected Washington, and the caption credits the battery to General Ingalls. The photographer, James F. Gibson, worked with wet collodion, a process that required the glass to be coated and exposed before it dried.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Ingalls Battery 4th N. Y. Artillery loading a cannon. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,011 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52539 |
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