Rappahannock Station Va. Pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Rappahannock Station Va. Pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers in remarkable detail. 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. Pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers
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Few pictures from the war show the engineering behind army movements as plainly as this one. It records a pontoon wagon of the 50th New York Engineers at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, a river crossing that changed hands during the fighting of 1863. Wagons like this carried the sections of a portable boat bridge, which engineers could assemble quickly so infantry and supply trains could cross a river the enemy might otherwise hold. The picture dates to 1864 and was made as a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat and expose each plate before it dried.
| 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. 0267 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Pontoon bridges. Engineering.United States--Virginia--Rappahannock Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,740 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46298 |
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