City Point Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels – 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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City Point Virginia (vicinity). Park of army wagon wheels
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Rows of army wagon wheels stacked in an open yard at City Point, Virginia, give this view a quieter subject than the battlefield scenes of the war. City Point, on the James River, served as the main Union supply base and as Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters during the siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865, receiving rations, ammunition and replacement equipment by river and rail. The picture survives as a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass plates, designed to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. It was once credited to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer considered certain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Park of Army Wagon Wheels City Point 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 | 5,096 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47738 |
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