Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Topographical Engineers Camp Winfield Scott – Vintage Photo 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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Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Topographical Engineers Camp Winfield Scott comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yorktown Virginia (vicinity). Topographical Engineers Camp Winfield Scott
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Named for Winfield Scott, the former Union general-in-chief, this camp near Yorktown, Virginia, housed Topographical Engineers, the officers who mapped roads, rivers and fortifications for the army. In the spring of 1862, George McClellan's army advanced against the Confederate lines at Yorktown, and survey work like this was central to planning that campaign. The stereograph is a glass wet collodion negative by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866. Plates of this kind had to be coated and developed on site, so the image is a direct record of wartime fieldwork.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Topographical Engineers Camp Winfield Scott vicinity of Yorktown Va. 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 × 2,166 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51735 |
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