Washington District of Columbia. Building of the U.S. Clothing Department – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington District of Columbia. Building of the U.S. Clothing Department. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington District of Columbia. Building of the U.S. Clothing Department
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The subject here is a government building in Washington, the home of the U.S. Clothing Department, which supplied uniforms and clothing to the Union Army during the final year of the Civil War. The image survives as a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each plate before the emulsion dried. David B. Woodbury, who worked in Washington and died in 1866, made the negative, and it belongs to a group of Civil War glass plates now held by the Library of Congress. Its plain architectural subject offers a view of the wartime supply machinery behind the front lines.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Building of U. S. Clothing Department. 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 × 4,134 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51510 |
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