Culpeper Virginia. Officers of 80th New York Infantry (Alston Guard. 20th Regiment – Vintage 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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Culpeper Virginia. Officers of 80th New York Infantry (Alston Guard. 20th Regiment
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Officers of the 80th New York Infantry, also listed under the older militia designation of the 20th Regiment and as the Alston Guard, posed at Culpeper, Virginia, in September 1863. By then the town lay among the Army of the Potomac's camps following the Gettysburg campaign, and photographers working in the area often made group portraits of officers. The picture is a glass negative made by the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed while still wet. The record notes that it was once credited to Alexander Gardner, the well-known Civil War photographer.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Officers of the 80th NY Infantry (20th N.Y.S.M) Culpepper VA Sept. 1863. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,124 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48237 |
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