1860s Photographic Techniques daguerreotype. Library of Congress collection and description of daguerreotype method calotype. University of Oxford website describing this process, with examples ambrotype. site discussing photographic process popular during civil war, using positive images rather than the familiar negatives tintype. Video showing how this variation of the ambrotypes were made. carte de viste (CDV). […]
A listing of the December 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: Lykens Railroad Station Honorable Discharges – 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I – Part 6 Honorable Discharges – 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I – Part 7 Honorable Discharges – 177th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company I – Part 8 November 2011 Posts Royal […]
Louis Prang, often credited with the invention of the Christmas card, was a Boston-based printer and publisher, who around 1886, embarked upon a project to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Prang hired famed military artist Thure de Thulstrup (1848-1930) to produce original water color paintings representing twelve different Civil […]
A listing of the June 2011 posts on The Civil War Blog with direct links: 121st Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg 139th Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg 142nd Pennsylvania Infantry – Pennsylvania Memorial at Gettysburg May 2011 Posts Jonas Row – 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry & 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry Heilner Woman’s Relief […]
(Part 4 of 4). In 1883,Clarence Clough Buel, the Assistant Editor of The Century Magazine, proposed a series of articles which would present differing points of view on the Civil War. Buel’s plan included the eventual publication of the articles in book form. In 1887 and 1888, the four volume work was first published. A […]
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