Original Civil War Glass Plate Photos

[Allen Wiener]

These are really fascinating; according to the email that forwarded them to me:

"Truly fortunate that so many of these photos 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 afterward and so many were sold for the glass. Many 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 the Civil War era. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge."


"Original Civil War Pictures"
www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html

[garyzaboly]

Apr 22, 2010 11:53:57 GMT -5 Allen Wiener said:

These are really fascinating; according to the email that forwarded them to me:

"Truly fortunate that so many of these photos 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 afterward and so many were sold for the glass. Many 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 the Civil War era. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge."


"Original Civil War Pictures"
www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html

Great selection, Allen! Many of these have been printed often before, of course, but a good segment not so often. Superb pics.

Sad to think of all those original glass negatives that were sold as window panes, or glass for greenhouses and other purposes, and relegated to a slow fading in the sunlight.

[Allen Wiener]

Thanks Gary; I'm just glad that a lot of it has been preserved.