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17th New York Battery Artillery Depot, Camp Barry, near Washington, D.C. – Antique Wall Art

17th New York Battery Artillery Depot, Camp Barry, near Washington, D.C., [photographed 1863 May, printed later] — historic photograph
17th New York Battery Artillery Depot, Camp Barry, near Washington, D.C., [photographed 1863 May, printed later]. 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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This rare historic photograph captures 17th New York Battery Artillery Depot, Camp Barry, near Washington, D.C. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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17th New York Battery Artillery Depot, Camp Barry, near Washington, D.C.

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Camp Barry, the Union artillery depot north of Washington, is the setting for this view of the 17th New York Battery. The date of May 1863 is an estimate based on similarity to other Camp Barry images, and the photograph is attributed to David Knox, who also photographed the 17th New York Light Artillery that year. Pictures like this show the logistics behind the field army, since guns, caissons and horses were gathered and readied at depots like this one before heading to the front. The print is held in the Library of Congress's Civil War photograph collection.

Created / published[photographed 1863 May, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1860-1910.
NotesTitle from item. (Source: Tom Taber, 2008) Attributed to David Knox based on similarity to other photos taken of the 17th New York Light Artillery in 1863. No. 436. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHorse artillery--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,677 × 3,771 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-221451

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