Petersburg Va. Essayons Dramatic Club a group of the U.S. Engineer Battalion – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Petersburg Va. Essayons Dramatic Club a group of the U.S. Engineer Battalion. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Va. Essayons Dramatic Club a group of the U.S. Engineer Battalion
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Here the name "Essayons," a French motto meaning "let us try," ties this group to the U.S. Engineer Battalion, whose soldiers staged amateur theater in their off-duty hours. The siege of Petersburg, Virginia, ran from June 1864 into the spring of 1865, and engineers there built the trenches, roads and fortifications that held the Union lines around the rail city. Wet collodion glass negatives like this one required quick exposures and still subjects, which makes a group portrait of soldiers at leisure an unusual view of camp life.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0384 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Engineers.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,712 × 1,360 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46639 |
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