Petersburg Va. General view of the commissary department 50th New York Engineers – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Petersburg Va. General view of the commissary department 50th New York Engineers, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Va. General view of the commissary department 50th New York Engineers
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Few pictures from the Petersburg siege turn the camera toward supply rather than combat, which makes this view of the commissary department of the 50th New York Engineers unusual. The regiment, raised in New York, spent much of 1864 in Virginia building and repairing the earthworks and bridges that held the Union lines around Petersburg, and the men who fed and supplied them worked close behind those lines. The image was made with a wet collodion glass negative, the standard process of the period, which required photographers to coat and expose plates quickly in the field. It is a useful reminder that a siege depended as much on stores and provisions as on the fighting.
| 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. 0409 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. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Engineers. 50th New York Engineers.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,742 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45980 |
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