Officer with horse – Vintage 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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Officer with horse
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The sleeve for this glass negative labels the rider only as "Gen.," so the officer and his horse remain unidentified, and the title comes from a Civil War caption book rather than a name. Made in 1862 by the photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, it uses the wet collodion process, which demanded that the plate be coated, exposed, and developed before it dried. Those constraints meant that camp and mounted portraits of commanders were often staged with care, with the horse standing still for a long exposure. The picture is a useful document of how Union officers presented themselves in the early war years.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Gen. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,222 × 2,644 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50412 |
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