Posted on 06/28/2010 6:26:36 PM PDT by navysealdad
Whether you like history or not... These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 145 years ago: A compendium of photos from the Civil War era. Truly fortunate that so many of these have survived. Probably a million wet plate photos were made during the civil war on glass plate. Popular during the war, they lost their appeal afterwards and so many were sold for the glass.
(Excerpt) Read more at angelfire.com ...
Bookmarking and thanks!
I don't know about that. Matthew Brady about went bankrupt with his effort to send out photo crews to document the civil war from both sides. He owned a photo studio and I don't think that he would forgo any ability to recoup his expenses just for the glass.
Thanks for posting!
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Amazing and yet some disturbing to view. Thanks for posting.
Civil war photos ping!
Pong.....I need a pic of Stonewall...
methreadkiller...
Remember, Vicksburg is only 3 and 1/2 hours from here....
wanna stand in awe?????
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