Surg. H.A. Potter 50th N.Y. Engineers – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Surg. H.A. Potter 50th N.Y. Engineers, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Surg. H.A. Potter 50th N.Y. Engineers
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The sleeve identifies the sitter as Surgeon H.A. Potter of the 50th New York Engineers, though that attribution is unverified. The image is a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate within minutes, so such portraits took careful, time-sensitive work. David B. Woodbury, the photographer credited with the negative, died in 1866. The 50th New York Engineers was raised during the war, so the recorded 1860 date deserves scrutiny. The plate belongs to the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: 3852; tape on emulsion: 1033 [crossed out]. 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 × 2,562 px · prints to 17 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51211 |
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