Aquia Creek Landing Va. Wharf with transport and supplies – 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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Step back in time with Aquia Creek Landing Va. Wharf with transport and supplies, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Aquia Creek Landing Va. Wharf with transport and supplies
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Aquia Creek Landing, on the Potomac in Stafford County, Virginia, was one of the busiest supply points in the region during the war, and this view shows its wharf crowded with transport vessels and stacked stores. The Union army used the landing to move men and supplies onto a rail line bound for Fredericksburg, so the scene documents the logistics that kept large armies in the field. The record credits David B. Woodbury, whose subject headings link his work to the 1862 Burnside Expedition to North Carolina. The catalog date of 1860 predates the fighting, so the exact moment of exposure is uncertain.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0168 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Burnsides Expedition to North Carolina 1862 Government vessels.United States--Virginia--Aquia Creek Landing. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,702 × 1,364 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51787 |
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