Belle Plain Landing Virginia. Distance view of Belle Plain Landing on the James Riv – Antique 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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Step back in time with Belle Plain Landing Virginia. Distance view of Belle Plain Landing on the James Riv, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Belle Plain Landing Virginia. Distance view of Belle Plain Landing on the James Riv
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Belle Plain Landing was a Union supply depot on the Potomac River in Stafford County, Virginia, and this distant view shows it during the 1864 campaigns, when the Army of the Potomac relied on it heavily. The caption notes a mail wagon from the U.S. 2nd Corps, a reminder of how much the landing depended on steady deliveries of letters, rations and supplies. Photographer James F. Gibson made the image as two glass plates, one for each eye, so it could be viewed as a stereograph in three dimensions. Wet collodion plates had to be coated and exposed before they dried, so each shot required careful preparation on site.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Distant view of Belle Plain Landing (with Mail Wagon U. S. 2nd corps.). Miller vol. 8 p. 35. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,701 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52563 |
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