Petersburg Va. The Dictator a 13-inch mortar in position – 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. The Dictator a 13-inch mortar in position, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Va. The Dictator a 13-inch mortar in position
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The Dictator was the name of a 13-inch mortar photographed in position at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864, during the long siege when the armies had settled into months of trench warfare. Mortars of this size lobbed heavy explosive shells in high arcs over earthworks, reaching Confederate positions that ordinary field guns could not hit. The picture was made with a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat, expose and develop each plate before it dried, so the clarity of such a massive weapon is worth noticing. The image was later issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0403 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--Equipment and supplies. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Mortars (Ordnance). Artillery (Weaponry)United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,698 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46159 |
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