Friday, 15 January 2010

These photos are just amazing. I enlarged several and the detail is wonderful.
 
Enlarge the last photo on line 20 from the bottom. This one is very politically incorrect and I am surprised they have not destroyed it. I pray it is not used for inciting trouble.

What do you notice that all the men have in common? 
=) 
Original Civil War Photos  - enjoy  ...thanks skipper.

It is fortunate that so many of these 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 afterwards 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. 

Extraordinary!
 
 




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