Camp of 5th V[ermon]t. Reg. Volunteers Camp Griffin, Va. – Historic Reproduction
![Camp of 5th V[ermon]t. Reg. Volunteers Camp Griffin, Va., [1861] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/76/766d0ef9c941-L.webp)
(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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Camp of 5th V[ermon]t. Reg. Volunteers Camp Griffin, Va. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Camp of 5th V[ermon]t. Reg. Volunteers Camp Griffin, Va.
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Few photographs from the first months of the Civil War show the ordinary business of camp life as plainly as this view of the 5th Vermont Regiment at Camp Griffin, Virginia. The regiment was one of the many volunteer units raised in the North in 1861, drilled and quartered in Virginia while the Union army was still learning to become a fighting force. The print is a salted paper process image, an early method that gives a softer, warmer tone than later photographic papers. Its attribution to George Harper Houghton and its presence in an album kept by Larkin G. Mead connect it to the personal record-keeping of soldiers and photographers in the war's first year.
| Created / published | [1861] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper. |
| Genre | Salted paper prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Attributed to George Harper Houghton. With Civil War album kept by Larkin G. Mead. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1975:071. |
| Subjects | Military encampments--Virginia--1860-1870. Tents--Virginia--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,471 × 1,190 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218441 |
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