Prospect Hill Virginia. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Prospect Hill Virginia. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Prospect Hill Virginia. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry
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Officers of the 13th New York Cavalry gathered at Prospect Hill, Virginia, near Washington, in July 1865, a few months after Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked in the wet collodion process, coating glass plates with light-sensitive chemicals and exposing them before they dried. Portraits of regimental officers like these were often made as volunteer units prepared to muster out, and they preserve the faces of the men who led cavalry through the war's last campaigns. Woodbury died in 1866, and his glass negative survives in the Library of Congress's Civil War collection.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Officers of 13th New york Cavalry Prospect Hill Va. (near Washington) July 1865. Miller vol. 4 p. 173. 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 × 4,132 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50679 |
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