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Washington D.C. The Long Bridge over the Potomac seen from the city – Historic Print

Washington D.C. The Long Bridge over the Potomac seen from the city, 1865 — historic photograph
Washington D.C. The Long Bridge over the Potomac seen from the city, 1865. Historic photograph from the Washington DC collection.

(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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Washington D.C. The Long Bridge over the Potomac seen from the city

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The Long Bridge carried the main road and rail traffic between the capital and Virginia, so this view from the Washington side shows one of the city's most important wartime crossings. During the Civil War the bridge was constantly busy with troops, wagons, and supplies moving south to Union armies camped across the river. The picture was made in 1865 on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat, expose, and develop each plate within minutes. The print appears in a series issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, one of several firms that sold views of wartime Washington to a public eager to see the places in the news.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0734 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher.
SubjectsWashington (D.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Bridges.United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,784 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46316

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