Bradys photo outfit in front of Petersburg Va. – 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 Bradys photo outfit in front of Petersburg Va.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bradys photo outfit in front of Petersburg Va.
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Mathew Brady's photographic wagon, parked before the lines at Petersburg, Virginia, is the subject here, a rare look at the traveling darkroom that made the field work of his teams possible. Brady's operators carried wet collodion plates, which had to be coated, exposed and developed before they dried, so the wagon served as a portable laboratory on campaign. The glass negative belongs to the Library of Congress Civil War collection, and the print was issued under the War Photograph and Exhibition Company name. Petersburg was under siege in 1864, and images like this one document the logistics behind the war's photographs as much as the war itself.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896--Associated objects. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 Carts & wagons--Virginia--Petersburg--1860-1870. Photographers--Virginia--Petersburg--1860-1870 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,973 × 3,054 px · prints to 13 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46257 |
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