Surg. J.E. Dexter – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Surg. J.E. Dexter in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Surg. J.E. Dexter
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The surgeon named in this record, J.E. Dexter, is identified only by a notation on the negative sleeve, and that identification has not been verified. The image dates to 1860, a year before the war began, and was made on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated and exposed while still damp. David B. Woodbury, the photographer credited in the record, died in 1866. The negative belongs to a larger collection of Civil War glass negatives at the Library of Congress, so it is valued today as a record of the years just before the conflict.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. 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 | 3,431 × 5,120 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51221 |
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