W.H. Morris – 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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A window into the past: W.H. Morris, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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W.H. Morris
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The only identification for this glass negative is the name W.H. Morris, taken from an unverified note on its sleeve, so who he was and why he was photographed remain open questions. The image was made by the wet collodion process, in which a photographer coated a glass plate, exposed it, and developed it while the coating was still wet. That method dominated photography from the early 1850s into the 1880s. Dated 1860, the negative predates the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, yet it is filed in a collection of war-era photographs, a reminder that archives often group images by subject rather than by when they were made. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866.
| 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 | 3,369 × 5,120 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51421 |
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