Washington District of Columbia. Interior of Fort Totten – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Washington District of Columbia. Interior of Fort Totten. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington District of Columbia. Interior of Fort Totten
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Few views of the Civil War capital's defenses show the inside of a fort, which makes this stereograph pair from 1861 unusual. Fort Totten was one of the earthwork and masonry works ringing Washington, D.C., built as the Union army fortified the city after the war began, and it was named for Joseph G. Totten, the Army's longtime chief engineer. Photographer David B. Woodbury made the image on wet collodion glass plates, which had to be coated and exposed before they dried. The two plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gave the scene a three-dimensional depth that flat prints could not.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior of Ft. Totten Washington D.C. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,060 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51608 |
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