Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey – 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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Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey 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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Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey
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Cumberland Landing sat on the Pamunkey River in Virginia, and in 1862 it served as a supply base for the Army of the Potomac during George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. This stereograph glass negative shows the army's encampment there, with tents and men arranged on the riverbank, a view of the vast logistical effort that moved troops and stores up the peninsula toward Richmond. The negative is part of the Library of Congress Civil War glass negative collection, and it is one of the images once attributed to Alexander Gardner, the photographer whose work from the period is widely studied.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Encampment of Army of Potomac at Cumberland Landing Pamunkey River Va. 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 × 2,167 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48253 |
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