Centreville Va. The principal fort – Historic Photograph 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: Centreville Va. The principal fort, 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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Centreville Va. The principal fort
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Few places in northern Virginia changed hands as often as Centreville, and this stereograph records one of the fortifications that rose there in 1862. Confederate troops left the town that March as Union forces advanced toward Manassas, and the Army of the Potomac then held the area and built earthworks to guard the approaches to Washington. The photograph is a wet collodion glass negative, a format that required photographers to coat and expose plates on the spot, and its paired views were meant to be seen through a stereoscope. It was made by James F. Gibson, a field photographer whose work documents the military landscape of the war.
| Created / published | 1862 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph 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. 0017 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Forts & fortifications.United States--Virginia--Centreville. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,688 × 1,362 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46681 |
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