Petersburg Va. Sections of chevaux-de-frise before Confederate main works – Vintage Photo 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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Step back in time with Petersburg Va. Sections of chevaux-de-frise before Confederate main works, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Va. Sections of chevaux-de-frise before Confederate main works
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Few defenses at Petersburg, Virginia, were as blunt as the chevaux-de-frise, rows of sharpened timbers angled outward to snag attackers. This stereograph by James F. Gibson shows sections of them lying before the Confederate main works in 1865, during the last months of the siege that Union forces under Ulysses S. Grant kept around the city. Because it was made as a stereo pair, the two glass plates were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave viewers of the period a sense of depth in the tangled barrier. The wet collodion process demanded careful preparation of each plate, so the scene was recorded deliberately.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0428 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,348 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46730 |
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