City Point Virginia. Army stores on wharf – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of City Point Virginia. Army stores on wharf. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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City Point Virginia. Army stores on wharf
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A wharf piled with army supplies at City Point, Virginia, sits on the James River near Petersburg. The image survives as a stereograph pair: two glass plates made with the wet collodion process, which were viewed together to give a sense of depth. The record dates it to 1861, though the site became one of the largest Union supply depots later in the war, and the photographer was once credited to Alexander Gardner. Stereographs like this one were popular in the 1860s, and they show how the war's logistics looked from the ground.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Army stores at City Point Va. Miller vol. 8 p. 39. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,114 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47748 |
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