Washington District of Columbia. Government repair shops – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Washington District of Columbia. Government repair shops in remarkable detail. 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. Government repair shops
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Few pictures from the capital at the end of the war show the unglamorous machinery behind the Union army, and this glass negative is one of them. It records government repair shops in Washington, D.C., captioned as April 1865, the month Richmond fell and Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Wartime Washington depended on such workshops to keep wagons, harnesses, and equipment in service for armies in the field. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked in the city during the conflict and died in 1866. The image was made with the wet collodion process, which required the glass plate to be coated and exposed while still damp, so each negative had to be prepared on the spot.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Government repair shops. Washington D.C. April 1865. Miller vol. 8. p. 40. 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 | 5,120 × 4,095 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51551 |
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