Atlanta Ga. Confederate palisades and chevaux-de-frise near Potter house – Antique 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 Atlanta Ga. Confederate palisades and chevaux-de-frise near Potter house. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Atlanta Ga. Confederate palisades and chevaux-de-frise near Potter house
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The subject is the Confederate barrier of sharpened timber palisades and chevaux-de-frise, the spiked frames meant to stop infantry, built near the Potter house on the defensive ring around Atlanta. Both halves of this stereograph pair were made as glass negatives in 1864, the year of the Atlanta Campaign, when Union armies pressed the city and Confederate engineers fortified its approaches. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two images merge into a single view with depth, letting viewers see how the obstacles were layered across the ground. The pictures were issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, one of several firms that sold Civil War views to a public eager for images of the front.
| 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. 0694 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Forts & fortifications. Dwellings. Atlanta Campaign 1864United States--Georgia--Atlanta. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,530 × 1,360 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46183 |
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