Church of Petersburg Va built by 50th N.Y. engineers – Vintage 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 Church of Petersburg Va built by 50th N.Y. engineers. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Church of Petersburg Va built by 50th N.Y. engineers
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The title credits a church in Petersburg, Virginia, to the 50th New York Engineers, a Union regiment that served around Petersburg during the war. That attribution comes from a note on the negative sleeve and has not been verified. The record dates the glass negative to 1860, before the war began, so the date and the title may not agree and should be read with caution. Wet collodion on glass was a common photographic process in the 1850s and 1860s, and the negative belongs to a larger Civil War collection at the Library of Congress. Earlier cataloguing linked it to Alexander Gardner, a well-known photographer of the period.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative on masking: Petersburg VA. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,235 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47737 |
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