Petersburg Virginia. On the parapet of Fort Mahone. (Standing in the center is Lt. – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Petersburg Virginia. On the parapet of Fort Mahone. (Standing in the center is Lt. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Virginia. On the parapet of Fort Mahone. (Standing in the center is Lt.
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Fort Mahone, one of the Confederate earthworks around Petersburg, Virginia, is the setting here, and an officer stands at its center on the parapet in April 1865. The record identifies him as Lt. J. B. Krepps of the 2nd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. Petersburg fell to Union forces in early April 1865 after a long siege, and the photograph was taken as the armies were moving through the ruined defenses. Photographer David B. Woodbury made the image as a stereograph, a pair of nearly identical views that a viewer could fuse into one image with a stereoscope to see depth. The wet collodion glass negatives of this kind preserve fine detail of the battered earthworks and the soldiers who occupied them.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: On the parapet of Ft. Mahone Petersburg Va. April 1865. Standing in the middle is Lt. J. B. Krepps 2nd Pa. Heavy Art. Miller vol. 3 p. 336. 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 | 5,097 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52761 |
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