Baltimore St., Cumberland, after a snow storm, Apl. 10, 1862 – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Baltimore St., Cumberland, after a snow storm, Apl. 10, 1862. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Baltimore St., Cumberland, after a snow storm, Apl. 10, 1862
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Dated April 10, 1862, this stereograph shows Baltimore Street in Cumberland, Maryland, after a snowstorm, with the buildings and street still wearing a late-season layer of white. Cumberland sat in the hills of western Maryland, a rail and road hub on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the National Road, and Union troops held the town during the Civil War. The print is an albumen positive from a wet-collodion negative, mounted as a stereo card, and its label names an amateur photographer and the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. Viewed through a stereoscope, the twin images give the snowy street a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1862 April. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card: stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Penciled on front of mount: 504. Amateur Photographic Exchange Club label affixed to verso gives title, photographer, photographer's address (Cumberland, MD.), date, number (118) and negative (wet). Amateur Photographic Exchange Club. Title from item. Forms part of: Charles F. Himes collection of stereographs by amateur photographers in the Marian S. Carson collection. |
| Subjects | Snow--Maryland--Cumberland--1860-1870. Streets--Maryland--Cumberland--1860-1870. City & town life--Maryland--Cumberland--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,697 × 3,797 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220109 |
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