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James River Va. U.S.S. Casco light-draft monitor – Vintage Wall Art

James River Va. U.S.S. Casco light-draft monitor, 1860 — historic photograph
James River Va. U.S.S. Casco light-draft monitor, 1860. Historic photograph from the Battleships collection.

(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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James River Va. U.S.S. Casco light-draft monitor

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The stereograph pair shows the USS *Casco*, one of the light-draft monitors the Union Navy built to operate in shallow rivers where deeper-hulled warships could not follow. Its setting on the James River in Virginia places it in the eastern theater, where Union gunboats and monitors supported army operations along the waterways. David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, is credited as the photographer, and he made the image on wet collodion glass plates, a process that required the photographer to prepare each plate just before exposure. The catalog dates the view to 1860, earlier than the vessel's wartime construction, so that date should be read with caution.

Created / published1860
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0553 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Government vessels--Union.United States--Virginia--James River.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,406 × 1,368 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-51811

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