Brandy Station Virginia. View of the camp of the 50th New York Engineers from the n – Antique 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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A window into the past: Brandy Station Virginia. View of the camp of the 50th New York Engineers from the n, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Brandy Station Virginia. View of the camp of the 50th New York Engineers from the n
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Brandy Station, Virginia, was the site of a major cavalry clash in June 1863, but this April 1864 stereograph shows a quieter side of the place: the tents of the 50th New York Engineers, photographed from the northwest. The negative sleeve credits T. H. O'Sullivan, who made many camp and field views for the Army of the Potomac. Because it is a stereo pair, the two glass plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gives the rows of tents a sense of depth. Engineer regiments built roads, bridges and fortifications that kept the army supplied and moving, so the camp records the everyday work behind the campaigns of 1864.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: T. H. OSullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: View of the camp of the 50th N. Y. V. Engineers from the northwest. April 1864. Annotation from negative glass side partially covered: Sullivan __[?]. 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 | 5,120 × 4,022 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52573 |
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