Surg. S.J. Jones U.S.N. – Vintage 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: Surg. S.J. Jones U.S.N., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Surg. S.J. Jones U.S.N.
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A wet collodion glass negative from 1860, this portrait is catalogued under the name Surg. S.J. Jones, U.S.N., a naval surgeon, though the Library of Congress notes that the title comes from information written on the negative sleeve and has not been verified. The image was made by David B. Woodbury, a photographer who died in 1866. Wet collodion plates were coated and exposed while still wet, so the sitter had to hold still for a considerable time, and the process was then the standard way to make detailed photographs. The negative belongs to a larger group of Civil War glass plates, which makes it useful for studying the naval medical service on the eve of the war.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. 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. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,464 × 5,120 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51233 |
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