Atlanta Georgia. Federal officers standing in front of house. (Formerly headquarter – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Atlanta Georgia. Federal officers standing in front of house. (Formerly headquarter in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Atlanta Georgia. Federal officers standing in front of house. (Formerly headquarter
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A pair of glass plates makes up this stereograph of Union officers posing in front of a house that was once Confederate General John Bell Hood's headquarters in Atlanta. The caption and the photographer's name come from later Civil War references, not from the image itself. Hood commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee, and after Union forces under William T. Sherman took Atlanta in September 1864, the occupying army used the city's buildings for its own staff. The wet collodion process of the period required long exposures, so the stiff poses and the attention to the building's facade show how the photographer worked. Stereo views like this were sold to a public eager for images of the war's front lines.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Headquarters of Gen. Hood Atlanta Ga. Photographers name attributed in Civil War caption books. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,184 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52546 |
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