Fort Monroe Virginia. Wharf – Vintage 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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Fort Monroe Virginia. Wharf comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fort Monroe Virginia. Wharf
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Fort Monroe, the Union-held fortress at Old Point Comfort on Virginia's Hampton Roads, was a supply depot and landing point for much of the war, and this view records its wharf in 1864. The picture survives as two glass negatives that form the left and right halves of a stereograph pair, meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. Wet collodion plates like these were the standard medium of the period, and the image was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer accepted.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Wharf at Ft. Monroe. 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 × 4,579 px · prints to 17 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48536 |
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