Washington District of Columbia. Group at Quartermaster Generals office. Corcorans – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington District of Columbia. Group at Quartermaster Generals office. Corcorans. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington District of Columbia. Group at Quartermaster Generals office. Corcorans
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A group of men posed at the Quartermaster General's office in Washington, D.C., in April 1865, just as the Civil War was ending. The department supplied the Union armies with everything from clothing and tents to transport, so its staff sat at the center of the war's logistics. David B. Woodbury, a photographer who died in 1866, made the picture as a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the plate to be coated, exposed and developed while still wet. The surviving notes give few details about the individuals shown, so the image is most useful as a record of the office and its work at the war's close.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of Quartermaster Generals office. Washington D.C. April 1865. 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 | 5,120 × 4,061 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51589 |
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