A rare specimen found on hill above Fort Riley Kansas 420 miles west of St. Louis M – Historic 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 A rare specimen found on hill above Fort Riley Kansas 420 miles west of St. Louis M. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A rare specimen found on hill above Fort Riley Kansas 420 miles west of St. Louis M
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Alexander Gardner sits beside his wagon on a hill above Fort Riley, Kansas, a spot the caption places 420 miles west of St. Louis. The wagon is a portable darkroom, the kind wet-plate photographers hauled across the field so they could coat, expose and develop plates on site. Gardner, best known for his Civil War battlefield photographs, made this stereograph in 1867 as part of a series documenting the Union Pacific Railway's Eastern Division, then building west across Kansas. The card shows the photographer's equipment as much as the landscape, which makes it a record of how the work was done.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | No. 104 1/2. Alex. Gardner is seated next to wagon. Title from item. Part of series: Across the continent on the Union Pacific Railway Eastern Division. American Memory edition timeline no. 1115. |
| Subjects | Gardner Alexander 1821-1882. Portable darkrooms--Kansas--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 2,902 × 3,072 px · prints to 10 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46014 |
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