Portrait of Maj. Gen. John Newton officer of the Federal Army – Antique Photo 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 Portrait of Maj. Gen. John Newton officer of the Federal Army. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Portrait of Maj. Gen. John Newton officer of the Federal Army
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This portrait shows John Newton, a career Army engineer who was pictured in 1860, years before the rank of major general named in its title. The image is a wet collodion glass negative made by James F. Gibson, a Washington photographer born in 1828. Newton went on to command divisions in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, and after the war he directed the removal of rocks from Hell Gate in New York's East River. The picture belongs to a set of Civil War-era photographs that Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge compiled, so its title reflects that later record rather than the date of the sitting.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0961 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Newton John. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 954 × 1,358 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52187 |
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