Alexandria Virginia. The Marshall house – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Alexandria Virginia. The Marshall house comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Alexandria Virginia. The Marshall house
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The Marshall House was a hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, and in May 1861 it became the site of one of the war's first deaths to draw national attention. After Union Col. Elmer Ellsworth took down a Confederate flag from the hotel's roof, the owner, James W. Jackson, shot and killed him, and a Union soldier then killed Jackson. The glass negative, made with the wet collodion process common at the time, was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a photographer working in the Washington area during the war, though that attribution is no longer assumed.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Marshall House Alexandria Va. 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 × 3,969 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46925 |
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