A parrott gun (trained on Sumter?) – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: A parrott gun (trained on Sumter?), preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A parrott gun (trained on Sumter?)
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A Parrott rifle, a rifled cast-iron piece with a wrought-iron band reinforcing its breech, is the subject here, and the title's question mark suggests that its target, possibly Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, was never confirmed. The image survives as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical views that a stereoscope fused into one image with apparent depth, a popular format for home viewing during and after the war. Its wet collodion glass negative was made in 1862, when Union forces were trying to reduce Confederate coastal defenses in the South. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866. The scratched annotation on the negative points to a published reference set, Francis Trevelyan Miller's photographic history of the war.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: 159 See Miller vol. 5 p. 116. 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 | 4,005 × 5,120 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50428 |
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