Life in camp, part 1 – Antique Wall Art
(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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Step back in time with Life in camp, part 1, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Life in camp, part 1
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Louis Prang's Boston firm issued this small chromolithograph as one of a set of album cards, each about the size of a visiting card, that showed Union soldiers going about their daily routines in camp. Prang was a German-born printer who became a leading American maker of color prints, and during the Civil War his firm produced sets like this one for a public hungry for images of the men at the front. Scenes of cooking, drilling, mail call and idle hours in tents gave families at home a familiar picture of life in the army, and the bright color work reflects the chromolithographic technique that Prang helped popularize in the United States.
| Created / published | Boston : Published by L. Prang & Co., c1864. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 12 prints (1 page) : chromolithograph ; 10.5 x 6.2 cm. (each) |
| Genre | Album cards 1860-1870.Chromolithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. |
| Subjects | Military life--Union--1860-1870. Military personnel--Union--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life--Union. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,991 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224663 |
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