Atlanta Georgia. Confederate fortifications – Antique 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 Atlanta Georgia. Confederate fortifications, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Atlanta Georgia. Confederate fortifications
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Two glass plates, one for each eye, record Confederate earthworks around Atlanta, made as a stereograph pair to be seen through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. Confederate defenders built these works during the 1864 campaign, as Union armies under William T. Sherman advanced on the city, which fell in early September. Wet collodion negatives like these demanded careful, quick work in the field, so the pair offers a rare close look at how the defenses were laid out. The record once credited the plates to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is now considered uncertain.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Fortifications. 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 × 4,540 px · prints to 17 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47064 |
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