Fredericksburg Virginia. Soldiers drawing water from a well. Army of the Potomac – 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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This historic photograph of Fredericksburg Virginia. Soldiers drawing water from a well. Army of the Potomac brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Fredericksburg Virginia. Soldiers drawing water from a well. Army of the Potomac
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Soldiers filling a water cart at Fredericksburg, Virginia, make an unusually ordinary subject for an 1864 Civil War photograph. The scene survives as two glass plates, the left and right halves of a stereograph pair meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now uncertain. Glass negatives made by the wet collodion process were the standard technology of the war years, and camp chores like this one show how the Army of the Potomac kept its men supplied.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Soldiers filling their water cart. Army of the Potomac 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 × 5,087 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48574 |
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