Petersburg Virginia. Telegrapher – 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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Petersburg Virginia. Telegrapher comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Petersburg Virginia. Telegrapher
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A stereograph pair from Petersburg, Virginia, makes a telegrapher its subject, a working figure that gives this 1861 view a particular focus. The glass negative was made with the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated and exposed before it dried. Its two halves were meant to be seen together through a stereoscope, producing a three-dimensional image. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866, and the record does not name the operator, so the figure stands for the many people who kept telegraph lines working during the war.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg Va. [Telegrapher]. 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 | 5,120 × 4,445 px · prints to 17 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50610 |
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