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Hampton Roads Virginia. Steamer FORT JACKSON – Vintage Wall Art

Hampton Roads Virginia. Steamer FORT JACKSON, 1864 — historic photograph
Hampton Roads Virginia. Steamer FORT JACKSON, 1864. Historic photograph from the Steamboats collection.

(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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Step back in time with Hampton Roads Virginia. Steamer FORT JACKSON, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Hampton Roads Virginia. Steamer FORT JACKSON

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The picture shows the steamer *Fort Jackson* at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in December 1864, when the harbor was a major Union anchorage and transit point for ships supplying the armies and blockade fleet. Its glass negative was made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop the plate on the spot, so the image reflects the slow, deliberate work of wartime documentary photography. The record notes that the picture was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a prominent Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since been revised. The image belongs to the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection.

Created / published1864
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesTitle from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Steamer Fort Jackson Hampton Roads dec. 1864. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan5,120 × 4,089 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-49450

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