Washington District of Columbia. Grand review of the army – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Washington District of Columbia. Grand review of the army. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington District of Columbia. Grand review of the army
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This glass stereograph negative records the Grand Review of the Army in Washington in May 1865, when Union troops marched up Pennsylvania Avenue over two days, May 23 and 24, past a reviewing stand where President Andrew Johnson and other officials watched. The photograph was made by David B. Woodbury, a Washington photographer who died in 1866, using the wet collodion process, which required exposing and developing the glass plate while it was still wet. The parade marked the close of the Civil War's major campaigns and the start of the army's demobilization, and the paired images of a stereograph give a sense of depth that single prints could not.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name attribution from Civil War caption books. Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Grand Review of Army in Washington. May 1865. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,470 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51582 |
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