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Atlanta Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street with wagon train – Historic Photograph Print

Atlanta Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street with wagon train, 1864 — historic photograph
Atlanta Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street with wagon train, 1864. Historic photograph from the Atlanta collection.

(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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This rare historic photograph captures Atlanta Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street with wagon train in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few photographs from wartime Atlanta show the rail corridor as plainly as this one does. The view runs north across the tracks along Whitehall Street, with a wagon train standing in the foreground, a detail that points to how dependent the Union army was on horse-drawn supply in the months after the city fell in September 1864. The stereograph was made as a pair of glass plates using the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose and develop each plate on the spot. Its publisher, the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, sold such views to a public eager for images of the war.

Created / published1864
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Atlanta Campaign 1864 Carts & wagons. Railroads.United States--Georgia--Atlanta.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,136 × 1,354 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46190

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