Rappahannock Station Va. Quarters of field and staff officers 50th New York Enginee – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Rappahannock Station Va. Quarters of field and staff officers 50th New York Enginee, 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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Rappahannock Station Va. Quarters of field and staff officers 50th New York Enginee
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Here the subject is the quarters of field and staff officers of the 50th New York Engineers at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, in 1864, rather than the fighting itself. The regiment was an engineering unit whose soldiers built and repaired bridges, roads and fortifications, skills that helped Union armies cross and hold the Rappahannock River. Made on a wet collodion glass negative, the photograph records how the army housed its senior men during the long stretches between campaigns, when camp building and maintenance took up much of the work.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0263 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. Engineering. 50th New York Engineers.United States--Virginia--Rappahannock Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,716 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45986 |
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