Washington District of Columbia. 17th New York Battery – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Washington District of Columbia. 17th New York Battery, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Washington District of Columbia. 17th New York Battery
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Taken in Washington, D.C., in 1863, this picture documents the 17th New York Battery, an artillery unit, through a glass negative made by the wet collodion process. That process demanded that each plate be coated, exposed, and developed while still wet, so photographers worked with portable darkrooms close to the scene. The negative was made by David B. Woodbury, a photographer who worked in the Washington area during the war and died in 1866. Its survival in the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection makes it a useful record of how military units were pictured during the conflict.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: 17th New York Battery Washington D.C. 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 × 4,232 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51500 |
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