Cold Harbor Virginia. View with soldiers and tents – 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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This historic photograph of Cold Harbor Virginia. View with soldiers and tents brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cold Harbor Virginia. View with soldiers and tents
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Dated June 4, 1864, this stereograph shows the ground at Cold Harbor, Virginia, the day after Union troops suffered heavy losses in a failed assault on Confederate lines there. The image was made as a glass negative using the wet collodion process, and its paired exposures were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Its label cites Miller's photographic history of the war, and the picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, though that attribution is now uncertain. Soldiers and tents in the scene show the camps and lines that held the position during the battle's long siege-like stalemate.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Cold Harbor Va. June 4th 1864. Annotation from negative stereo label: Miller vol. 4 P. 245. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,151 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48140 |
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