City Point Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins wife and child at Grants headquarters – 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 City Point Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins wife and child at Grants headquarters. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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City Point Virginia. Gen. John A. Rawlins wife and child at Grants headquarters
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Few pictures from the war show a general's family at the front, and this stereograph pair records Brig. Gen. John A. Rawlins's wife and child at Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters at City Point, Virginia, in 1865. Rawlins served as Grant's chief of staff and was one of his closest advisers, and City Point, on the James River, was the Union's major supply base during the siege of Petersburg. The two glass plates were made with the wet collodion process, and James F. Gibson, a photographer who worked for Mathew Brady, is credited with the exposures. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images give the scene a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Brig. Gen. John A. Rawlins wife and child at Gen. Grants Hdq. City Point Va. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. 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 | 5,083 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52633 |
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