Petersburg Va. Signal tower at 14th New York Heavy Artillery headquarters – 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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Step back in time with Petersburg Va. Signal tower at 14th New York Heavy Artillery headquarters, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Va. Signal tower at 14th New York Heavy Artillery headquarters
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The tower stands at the headquarters of the 14th New York Heavy Artillery, a Union regiment serving in the siege lines around Petersburg, Virginia. Signal towers like this one let officers pass messages by flag and lamp across the front, so a single post could link distant units during the 1864-1865 siege. The record gives the date as 1860, which predates the war, so the date likely needs correction. The picture is a glass stereograph made with the wet collodion process, with left and right halves that were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made it.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0399 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Communications. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Signal towers. Artillery (Troops)--Union. 14th New York Heavy Artillery.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,172 × 1,356 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46136 |
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