Rappahannock Station Virginia. Canvas pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers – Vintage 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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Rappahannock Station Virginia. Canvas pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Rappahannock Station Virginia. Canvas pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers
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A canvas-covered pontoon wagon of the 50th New York Engineers, photographed at Rappahannock Station, Virginia, in March 1864, offers a close look at the equipment army engineers used to throw temporary bridges across rivers. Pontoon wagons carried the folding boats and fittings for that work, and the canvas covers hint at how exposed these crews were to winter weather. Rappahannock Station had already seen river crossings and fighting in 1862 and 1863. The image is a wet collodion glass negative by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, and it belongs to the Library of Congress Civil War glass negative collection.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Canvas pontoon wagon 50th New York Engineers Rappahannock Station March 1864. 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 × 4,182 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50726 |
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