Savannah Georgia. Soldiers graves? – Antique 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 Savannah Georgia. Soldiers graves?. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Savannah Georgia. Soldiers graves?
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This is a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical photographs taken from slightly different positions so that they produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereoscope. Its two glass plates show rows of soldiers' graves in Savannah, Georgia, in 1865, the year the Civil War ended. Union forces had taken the city in December 1864 at the close of Sherman's march to the sea, and the cemeteries that followed were among the first things photographers recorded in the occupied South. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, made these wet collodion negatives, a process that required the plates to be coated and exposed before they dried.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Soldiers Graves Savannah Ga. 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 | 4,521 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51059 |
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