Rappahannock Station Va. Canvas pontoon boat 50th New York Engineers – Historic 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 Rappahannock Station Va. Canvas pontoon boat 50th New York Engineers. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Rappahannock Station Va. Canvas pontoon boat 50th New York Engineers
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Few pictures show the working gear of Civil War engineers as directly as this view of a canvas-covered pontoon boat at Rappahannock Station, Virginia. The boat belonged to the 50th New York Engineers, a unit that built and maintained the floating bridges the Army of the Potomac relied on to cross rivers. Rappahannock Station had been the scene of a Union crossing and clash in November 1863, and the river remained a key crossing point through the following year. The wet collodion glass negative used to make the picture was the standard method of the period, and its date of 1864 places the image during the army's long campaigning in northern Virginia.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0266 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Pontoon bridges. Engineering. 50th New York Engineers.United States--Virginia--Rappahannock Station. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,722 × 1,368 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45983 |
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