Petersburg Virginia. Officers of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry – 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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Petersburg Virginia. Officers of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry
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This glass negative documents a group of officers from the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864, when the city was under siege by Union forces. The regiment belonged to the Army of the Potomac, and its officers were photographed during a stretch of the war when many units were camped near the trenches for months. The image was made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat each glass plate and expose it before the coating dried, so field photographers often worked from portable darkrooms. The negative is attributed to David B. Woodbury, who was active photographing Union soldiers and sites in and around Petersburg that year.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Officers of 114th Pennsylvania Infantry. 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 × 4,129 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50591 |
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