Unknown location. 6-pdr. field gun model 1841 – 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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A window into the past: Unknown location. 6-pdr. field gun model 1841, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Unknown location. 6-pdr. field gun model 1841
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Few pictures in this group focus on a single piece of equipment as directly as this stereograph of a 6-pounder field gun, Model 1841, which the two side-by-side plates render in depth. The Model 1841 was the standard light smoothbore field piece of the U.S. Army, prized for mobility alongside infantry, and it saw service in both the Mexican War and the Civil War. The record gives no location, and the image is dated 1860, a year before the war began, so it shows the weapon in peacetime rather than in combat.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0859 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Artillery (Weaponry) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,386 × 1,360 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46170 |
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