Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Federal battery – 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 rare historic photograph captures Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Federal battery in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Fair Oaks Va. vicinity. Federal battery
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Taken near Fair Oaks, Virginia, this stereograph shows a Federal artillery battery during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862, when Union forces under George B. McClellan advanced up the peninsula toward Richmond. The fighting at nearby Fair Oaks (also called Seven Pines) in late May and early June 1862 was one of the campaign's bloodiest engagements. The picture was made by photographer James F. Gibson on a wet collodion glass negative, a process that required the photographer to coat and expose each plate before it dried. Its two plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gives the guns and men a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0074 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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. Peninsular Campaign 1862.United States--Virginia--Fair Oaks. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,242 × 1,356 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52200 |
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