Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey – 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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Step back in time with Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Cumberland Landing Virginia. Federal encampment on the Pamunkey
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Cumberland Landing sat on the Pamunkey River in eastern Virginia, and in 1862 it served as a supply base for the Army of the Potomac during George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. The negative's caption identifies this view as an encampment at the landing, so the picture shows the tents and daily life of an army staging its movement up the peninsula toward Richmond. The record also notes that the image was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a prominent Civil War photographer, which is worth keeping in mind when weighing its origins. Glass stereograph negatives like this one were made with the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat and expose plates before they dried.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Encampment of Army of the Potomac at Cumberland Landing Pamunkey River VA. 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 × 2,136 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48254 |
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