Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Church and camp of the 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Church and camp of the 50th New York Engineers. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Church and camp of the 50th New York Engineers
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Here a church and a camp of the 50th New York Engineers stand together in front of Petersburg, Virginia, in 1862. The regiment was a New York unit whose men built and repaired the bridges, roads, and earthworks that Union armies relied on, so the scene shows engineers settled into a camp near a town. The picture is a glass stereograph made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each plate on the spot. David B. Woodbury, who photographed Union army life during the war, made the image. He died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Church and Camp of 50th New York Engineers in front of Petersburg Va. 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 × 2,123 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50453 |
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