Brandy Station Virginia. Army of the Potomac. Eastern half of the camp – 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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Brandy Station Virginia. Army of the Potomac. Eastern half of the camp
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Brandy Station, Virginia, was the site of the Army of the Potomac's headquarters camp in the spring of 1864, and this stereograph records its eastern half in April of that year. The image is a stereo pair, made from two glass plates that were exposed side by side so that viewers could see depth when the pair was placed in a stereoscope. The photographer was James F. Gibson, who worked with Alexander Gardner's studio in the field, and his work from this period documents the daily organization of a large army encamped between campaigns. Wet collodion glass negatives like these were fragile and required photographers to prepare and develop plates on the spot.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Headquarters Army Potomac eastern half of camp April 1864. 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 | 5,120 × 4,606 px · prints to 17 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52570 |
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