Bow Gun on Confederate gunboat Teazer captured by the Maritanza – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Bow Gun on Confederate gunboat Teazer captured by the Maritanza
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The gun shown here is the bow armament of the Confederate gunboat Teazer, which the record says was captured by the Union vessel Maritanza in 1862. Early in the war, the Confederacy improvised a small fleet of gunboats from captured or converted vessels, and the Union navy seized several of them, so a photograph of a captured boat's gun documents a real turn in the naval fighting. James F. Gibson made the picture as a stereograph, a paired image meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. It was made with wet collodion on glass, the dominant photographic process of the Civil War years.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: James F. Gibson. Title and date from Gardners catalog. Caption from negative sleeve: Gun of the TEASER One of the 1st Confederate Gunboats. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52567 |
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