Fort Brady Va. Three officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery – 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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Step back in time with Fort Brady Va. Three officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Fort Brady Va. Three officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
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The three officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery posed at Fort Brady, Virginia, in 1864, and the image survives as a glass stereograph, a pair of nearly identical views meant to be seen together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. Heavy artillery regiments like this one manned the large fixed guns of the fortifications that ringed Washington during the war, so the setting says as much about the defense of the capital as the men do. Stereographs were a popular home entertainment in the 1860s, and their wet collodion glass negatives capture fine detail in uniforms and equipment.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0336 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military personnel. Artillery (Troops) Forts & fortifications. 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery.United States--Virginia--Fort Brady. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,340 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-45963 |
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