Elk Mountain Maryland. Signal tower – Antique Photo 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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A window into the past: Elk Mountain Maryland. Signal tower, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Elk Mountain Maryland. Signal tower
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The tower on Elk Mountain in Maryland is the subject here, a timber signal station set on high ground where Union signal men could watch for enemy movements and relay messages by flag or lamp across miles of countryside. The 1862 glass negative was made with the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat, expose, and develop each plate before the emulsion dried. The picture was long credited to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, but the Library of Congress lists that attribution as former, so the maker is now uncertain. Its place in the Civil War glass negative collection makes it a useful record of how the army used high points for communication.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,124 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48429 |
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