Petersburg Va. View from breastworks of Fort Sedgwick – Historic Photograph 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 Petersburg Va. View from breastworks of Fort Sedgwick. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Va. View from breastworks of Fort Sedgwick
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The view was taken from the breastworks of Fort Sedgwick, a Union earthwork on the siege lines around Petersburg, Virginia, where soldiers faced Confederate positions for months. Photographer James F. Gibson made it in 1865, near the end of the Petersburg campaign, and it survives as a glass stereograph, one of a pair of images meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. Stereographs like this one brought the trench warfare of the siege to home audiences, showing the raw earth, timber, and open ground that defined the fighting around the city.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 2 negatives (3 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. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,336 × 1,368 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46731 |
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