Chattanooga Tenn. U.S. military train at depot; Lookout Mountain in background – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Chattanooga Tenn. U.S. military train at depot; Lookout Mountain in background. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Chattanooga Tenn. U.S. military train at depot; Lookout Mountain in background
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Few views of Chattanooga in 1864 show the railroad as plainly as this stereograph, which places a line of military railcars at the depot with Lookout Mountain rising behind them. Chattanooga was a rail hub of real strategic weight: after the Union victory there in late 1863, control of its lines let Federal armies supply the push into Georgia. The image was made as a stereograph pair by the E. & H.T. Anthony firm, a New York company that sold such paired views to viewers who used hand-held stereoscopes to see depth. Two glass plates, one for each eye, record the scene in wet collodion, a process that demanded quick work in the field.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0678 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Railroads. Chattanooga Battle of Chattanooga Tenn. 1863.United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,374 × 1,372 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46510 |
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