Brandy Station Virginia. Carpenter wheelwright and harness shops. Headquarters Army – 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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Brandy Station Virginia. Carpenter wheelwright and harness shops. Headquarters Army
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Wheelwright and harness work at Brandy Station, Virginia, is the focus of this view, which shows the carpenter, wheelwright, and harness shops at the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac in April 1864. Such shops kept wagons rolling and horses equipped, so they were essential to the army's supply and mobility. The camp sat in the months before Ulysses S. Grant opened his spring campaign against Richmond. The record notes that Alexander Gardner was once credited with the negative, a attribution that has since been questioned, and the wet collodion glass plate reflects the photographic process of the period.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: View of Carpenter Wheelwright and Harness shops at headquarters Army Potomac. April 1864. Annotation from negative stereo label: Miller vol. 8 p. 41. 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 × 2,185 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47180 |
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