Railway stores on the quayside at Balaklava – Antique Print
![Railway stores on the quayside at Balaklava, [1855] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6b/6bb881344bf9-L.webp)
(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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Step back in time with Railway stores on the quayside at Balaklava, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Railway stores on the quayside at Balaklava
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Few places in the Crimean War mattered more to the British army than Balaklava, a small harbor on the peninsula's southern coast, and this view of the railway stores on its quayside shows the port at work. Roger Fenton made the picture in 1855, when a railway was being built up from the harbor to carry supplies toward the camps besieging Sevastopol. Printed on salted paper, the photograph records the logistics behind the fighting as much as the fighting itself.
| Created / published | [1855] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 29 x 36 cm. |
| Genre | Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Title transcribed from verso. Alternate title from: James, Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs. Purchase; Frances M. Fenton; 1944. Forms part of: Roger Fenton Crimean War photograph collection. Crimea 1854-56 : the war with Russia from contemporary photographs / Lawrence James. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1981, no. 72. |
| Subjects | Crimean War, 1853-1856--Equipment & supplies--British. Military personnel--British--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Ships--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Piers & wharves--Ukraine--Balaklava--1850-1860. Balaklava (Ukraine)--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,220 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109802 |
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