Washington District of Columbia. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: Gen. Daniel Si – Historic Photograph 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. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: Gen. Daniel Si. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington District of Columbia. Wiard gun at U.S. Arsenal. (L to R: Gen. Daniel Si
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A Wiard gun, a rifled breech-loading cannon of the kind Union officers were evaluating early in the war, stands at the U.S. Arsenal in Washington, with General Daniel Sickles and a group of men gathered around it. Sickles, a New York politician who raised a brigade in 1861, was a prominent figure in the Union army, and the photograph pairs him with a weapon that reflects the search for better artillery. The image survives as a stereograph, two side-by-side glass negatives meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. E. & H.T. Anthony, one of the best-known stereograph publishers of the period, issued it.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: US Arsenal Washington. Gen. Daniel Sickles & group. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,069 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52826 |
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