Petersburg Virginia. Group of mechanics of 1st Division 9th Army Corps – Historic Photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Petersburg Virginia. Group of mechanics of 1st Division 9th Army Corps. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Virginia. Group of mechanics of 1st Division 9th Army Corps
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A group of mechanics from the 1st Division of the 9th Army Corps, photographed at Petersburg, Virginia, in October 1864, shows the men who kept the army's equipment in working order rather than the soldiers in its lines. Petersburg had been under siege since June, and the 9th Corps held part of that front, so skilled repair work was essential to keeping operations going through the autumn. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat and expose each plate on the spot. It was made by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Group of mechanics of 1st Div. 9th Army Corps. Oct. 1864. 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 × 4,171 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50477 |
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