Westover Landing Virginia. James H. Childs and staff 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry – 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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Westover Landing Virginia. James H. Childs and staff 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Westover Landing Virginia. James H. Childs and staff 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry
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Westover Landing, a Union landing on the James River in eastern Virginia, is the setting for this August 1862 group portrait of Colonel James H. Childs and the staff of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry. The landing lay near Harrison's Landing, where the Army of the Potomac regrouped after the Peninsula Campaign stalled that summer, so the scene captures a pause in McClellan's effort to take Richmond. Alexander Gardner made the wet collodion glass negatives, and E. & H.T. Anthony published them as a stereograph, a pair of images meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: Alex. Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Col. J. H. Childs and staff Westover Landing Aug. 1862. Annotation from stereo label: 4th Pa. Cav. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,835 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52827 |
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