Washington District of Columbia (vicinity). Great Falls Potomac River – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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: Washington District of Columbia (vicinity). Great Falls Potomac River, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Washington District of Columbia (vicinity). Great Falls Potomac River
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The Great Falls of the Potomac, where the river drops sharply over bedrock some fifteen miles upstream from the capital, is the particular subject of this 1862 view. It was made as a wet collodion glass negative by David B. Woodbury, a photographer who worked in Washington during the war and died in 1866. Wartime Washington was crowded with troops, supply lines and fortifications, and scenic spots near the city drew both soldiers and civilians, so a picture like this shows the landscape that surrounded the capital while the conflict ran close by. The glass negative format of the period captured fine rock detail, which is worth noticing in the broken river channel.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Great Falls Potomac River near Washington D.C. 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 | 5,120 × 4,169 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51482 |
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