Atlanta Georgia. Confederate fortifications with Potter house in the distance – 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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Atlanta Georgia. Confederate fortifications with Potter house in the distance comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Atlanta Georgia. Confederate fortifications with Potter house in the distance
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This stereograph pair shows Confederate earthworks outside Atlanta, with the Potter house visible in the distance. The house stood on the city's edge during the 1864 campaign, when fighting around Atlanta turned the surrounding farmland into a maze of trenches and redoubts. The photographs are attributed to James F. Gibson, and because they were made as a matched pair of glass negatives, viewers with a stereoscope see the earthworks in depth. Such views are valuable for showing how far the defenses extended and how the landscape looked once the armies had moved on.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Fortifications near Potter house Atlanta Ga. Photographers name attributed in Civil War caption books. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,975 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52544 |
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