[Atlanta, Ga. Wagon train on Marietta Street] LC-B811-... |
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Options: 1) Download Source Image from Library of Congress 2) If link above doesn't work, try alternate LOC link 3) Report broken link TITLE:[Atlanta, Ga. Wagon train on Marietta Street] CALL NUMBER:LC-B811- 3610[P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER:LC-DIG-cwpb-03355 (digital file from original neg. of left half) SUMMARY:Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to abandon the munitions center of the Confederacy. Sherman remained there, resting his war-worn men and accumulating supplies, for nearly two and a half months. During the occupation, George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer''s Office, made the best documentary record of the war in the West; but much of what he photographed was destroyed in the fire that spread from the military facilities blown up at Sherman''s departure on November 15. MEDIUM:1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. CREATED/PUBLISHED:[1864] CREATOR: Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer. NOTES: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0697 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3610B) and right (LC-B811-3610A) halves of a stereograph pair. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) SUBJECTS: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities. FORMAT: Stereographs 1860-1870. PART OF:Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) REPOSITORY:Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID:(digital file from original neg. of left half) cwpb 03355 CARD #:cwp2003000874/PP
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