Bermuda Hundred Va. Photographer at Butlers signal tower – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: Bermuda Hundred Va. Photographer at Butlers signal tower, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bermuda Hundred Va. Photographer at Butlers signal tower
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Taken at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, in 1864, this stereograph shows a signal tower associated with Union general Benjamin Butler's lines. That spring Butler's Army of the James held a narrow peninsula between the James and Appomattox rivers, and signal stations like this one helped officers pass messages and watch the surrounding ground. The image was made as a pair of glass plates using the wet collodion process, so viewing it through a stereoscope gives the tower and the men near it a sense of depth that a single print cannot.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0325 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Communications. Signal towers. Photography.United States--Virginia--Bermuda Hundred. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,334 × 1,362 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52308 |
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