Culpeper Court House Va. Railroad depot – Antique 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 Culpeper Court House Va. Railroad depot. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Culpeper Court House Va. Railroad depot
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Culpeper Court House in Virginia was a rail hub that changed hands repeatedly during the Civil War, and this stereograph catches its railroad depot in 1862, the year of the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Union army's campaigns across northern Virginia. Glass stereographs like this one were made as matched pairs of wet collodion negatives, so viewed through a stereoscope the depot appears to stand in three dimensions. The image was issued by the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, a Washington-based concern that sold views of the conflict to a public eager for news from the front. Its value to historians lies in showing how essential rail lines and their depots were to moving troops and supplies.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph 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. 0112 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Bull Run 2nd Battle of Va. 1862. Railroads.United States--Virginia--Culpeper Court House. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,424 × 1,372 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46333 |
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