Washington District of Columbia. Camp of 31st Penn. Inf. (later 82d Penn. Inf.) at – Vintage 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.)
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A window into the past: Washington District of Columbia. Camp of 31st Penn. Inf. (later 82d Penn. Inf.) at, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington District of Columbia. Camp of 31st Penn. Inf. (later 82d Penn. Inf.) at
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Few images capture the defenses of Washington in the first months of the Civil War as directly as this stereograph of the camp of the 31st Pennsylvania at Queens Farm, with Fort Slocum visible in the distance. The 31st, later redesignated the 82nd Pennsylvania, was one of the many volunteer regiments that gathered around the capital after the fighting began in April 1861, when the city was ringed by hastily built earthworks. Photographed on wet collodion glass plates and issued as a pair for viewing through a stereoscope, the image was published by E. & H.T. Anthony, the New York firm that supplied much of the period's war photography to a public eager for views of the front.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Camp of 31st Pa. Regt. Queens Farm Fort Slocum in distance. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,294 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52801 |
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