Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Group of 13th New York heavy Artillery. Winter camp – Historic 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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A window into the past: Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Group of 13th New York heavy Artillery. Winter camp, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Group of 13th New York heavy Artillery. Winter camp
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This stereograph shows the winter quarters of the 13th New York Heavy Artillery near Petersburg, Virginia, with the two glass plates forming the left and right halves of a pair meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The record gives 1861 as the date, but Petersburg became a central Union objective during the siege of 1864 and 1865, so the date may be uncertain. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, made wet collodion negatives of Union camps and soldiers, and his plates give a close look at how heavy artillery units lived between campaigns.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: 13th N. Y. Heavy Artillery Winter Quarters Petersburg Va. 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 × 5,059 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50460 |
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