Showing posts with label covered wagons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label covered wagons. Show all posts

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Photo of a Mormon Settler Covered Wagon Train in Echo Canyon, Utah Territory (1870's)


Photo of a Mormon settler covered wagon train in Echo Canyon, Utah Territory, c. 1870s. A mounted US Army officer is visible in the front of the group at left. A telegraph line is visible in the background. Taken by photographer Charles Carter and originally published as a stereoview.

Source: J. Paul Getty Museum.

 

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Photo of Settlers and Their Covered Wagons Traveling Through Strawberry Valley, California (1865)

 

"Emigrant Train, Strawberry Valley, going East." Photo of settlers and their covered wagons traveling through Strawberry Valley, California, 1865. An inscription on a rock at right says "J. T. Lee" followed by more partially visible words/letters/symbols. By photography firm Lawrence and Houseworth and originally published as a stereoview. A rare copy of the stereoview in the collection of the New York Public Library has a copyright date of 1865 on it.

Source: Library of Congress. 

 More information: New York Public Library.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Sequence of Photographs of Union Army Covered Wagons On The Move Picking Up and Carrying Off Supplies, Ambulances, Horses, an Encampment, and Docked Transport Vessels at Belle Plain Along Potomac Creek in Virginia During the American Civil War (1864)

 

Sequence of photographs of Union Army covered wagons on the move picking up and carrying off supplies, ambulances, horses, an encampment, and docked transport vessels at Belle Plain along Potomac Creek in Virginia during the American Civil War, c. 1864. Two additional photographs show army or civilian teamsters posing for the camera and a darkroom used by the photographer to develop all of the photographs.

These four looped photographs were taken in quick succession with a 4-lens stereoscopic camera and reveal that a time of possibly a few seconds between when the images on the glass negative plate were exposed. A primitive film emerges when they are animated as seen here. They were probably taken by a photographer employed by Mathew Brady.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration.

Monday, July 3, 2017

Thursday, March 16, 2017

View of Crowds Watching Union Soldiers of the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Exchange Place in Providence, Rhode Island, Shortly Before Their Departure for Washington, D.C. (1861)


View of crowds watching Union soldiers of the 1st Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Exchange Place in Providence, Rhode Island, shortly before their departure for Washington, D.C., April 20, 1861. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Sunday, September 6, 2015

View of Buyers, Sellers, and Their Wagons in Haymarket Square on a Market Day in Washington, D.C. (1865)


View probably showing buyers, sellers, and their wagons in Haymarket Square on a market day in Washington, D.C., 1865. The Smithsonian Castle is visible in the background on the right.

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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Photograph Taken During the Second Battle of Fredericksburg Showing Battle Smoke Drifting Through Downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia (1863)


Photograph taken during the Second Battle of Fredericksburg showing battle smoke drifting through downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863. A number of Union soldiers are standing/possibly moving on the pontoon bridge crossing the Rappahannock River in the middle ground. By Andrew J. Russell.

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Monday, January 5, 2015

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

View of a Damaged Artillery Caisson, a Dead Horse And Other Debris After the Battle of Gettysburg (1863)


"Unfit for service." View of a damaged artillery caisson, dead horse, and other debris after the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1863. A Union Army wagon train can be seen in the background. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Confederates Soldiers Killed During the Battle of Gettysburg in Unfinished Graves Dug by Their Comrades on the Rose Farm (1863)


Confederates soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg in unfinished graves dug by their comrades on the Rose Farm, July 1863. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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