It is fortunate that these photos have survived. Most 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 many were sold for the glass. Many were used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear.
These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge and to read the caption. Then click the back button to review another picture.
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Thank you very much for that link. I enjoyed looking at the pictures.
ReplyDeleteYou are so welcome Rick! Thanks for coming by my friend! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link Marian, interesting photos. I have a few books on the Civil War but have not seen many of those photos before.
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