Self-Portrait of Photographer O. M. Perrigo Posing With His Horse-Drawn Photography Wagon With Darkroom Attached to the Back in Medfield, Massachusetts (1860s)

Probable self-portrait of photographer O. M. Perrigo posing with his horse-drawn photography wagon with darkroom attached to the back. The subject appears to be holding a string which would have been attached to the camera lens cover, allowing him to take a self-portrait. Perrigo seems to have taken this stereoview photograph (cropped and edited for clarity) after taking more than two dozen stereoviews of buildings, machinery and employees at the Excelsior Straw Works in Medfield, Massachusetts, sometime during the late 1860s.

Source: New York Public Library.

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.

View of Traffic on Turnpike Bridge in Lawrence, Kansas (1867)

View of traffic on Turnpike Bridge in Lawrence, Kansas, 1867. The darkroom used to develop this photograph is possibly visible on the back of the wagon on the left. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoview.

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View of Egbert Guy Fowx or an Assistant Developing a Photograph in a Mobile Darkroom in Richmond, Virginia (1865)

View of Egbert Guy Fowx or an assistant developing a photograph in a mobile darkroom with a pontoon bridge and downtown Richmond in the background in Richmond, Virginia, c. 1865.

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Photographers Relaxing in a Union Camp During the Siege of Petersburg

Photographers relaxing in a Union camp during the Siege of Petersburg. The mobile darkroom where these negatives were developed is visible behind the tent. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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A Group of Men Posing Around a Well Near an Abandoned Confederate Field Hospital in Cedar Mountain, Virginia (1862)

A group of men posing around a well at the site of an abandoned Confederate field hospital after the Battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, August 1862. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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View of Confederate Soldiers Killed on the Rose Farm During the Battle of Gettysburg (1863)

View of Confederate soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg on the Rose Farm, July 1863. The photographers' darkroom wagon can be seen in the background on the left. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Union Soldiers Posing on and in Front of a Signal Tower at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia (1864)

Union soldiers posing on and in front of a signal tower at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, 1864. Another man, probably a photographer, is posing with a darkroom wagon on the right. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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A Man Posing With One of Mathew Brady's Photography Wagons During the Civil War

An unidentified man posing with one of Mathew Brady's photography wagons during the Civil War. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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