Wm. Mackall Chief of Staff Army of Tenn. C.S.A. – Vintage Photo 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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Wm. Mackall Chief of Staff Army of Tenn. C.S.A. 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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Wm. Mackall Chief of Staff Army of Tenn. C.S.A.
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A portrait of William Mackall, identified in the title as chief of staff of the Confederate Army of Tennessee, survives on this glass negative. The record dates it to 1860, which sits awkwardly with the title because the Army of Tennessee was not organized until 1862, and the title itself comes from an unverified note on the negative sleeve. The image was made by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, using the wet collodion process, which was widely used for portraits in the 1850s and 1860s and required the sitter to hold still through a short exposure. The negative is now part of a larger collection of Civil War glass negatives held by the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: 6758. 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 | 3,287 × 5,000 px · prints to 11 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51700 |
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