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This is a photograph of an entrance to a dugout or shelter. It captures a wooden structure built into an earthen mound, with a doorway and a small window on the right side. In front of the shelter, there is a wooden ladder leaned against it, leading up the mound. The ground around the entrance appears to be barren with scattered twigs and debris. The image is a stereoscopic one, displaying double photographs side by side. It has an orange border with the text "THE WAR FOR THE UNION. PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY."
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This is a photograph of an entrance to a dugout or shelter. It captures a wooden structure built into an earthen mound, with a doorway and a small window on the right side. In front of the shelter, there is a wooden ladder leaned against it, leading up the mound. The ground around the entrance appears to be barren with scattered twigs and debris. The image is a stereoscopic one, displaying double photographs side by side. It has an orange border with the text "THE WAR FOR THE UNION. PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY."

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

"Bombproof Quarters of Major Strong at Dutch Gap, 16th New York Artillery"

E. & H.T. Anthony

Date
July 1864
Medium
stereoscopic albumen silver print
Dimensions
image (each): 8 × 7.8 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in.) sheet: 8 × 15.8 cm (3 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.) mount: 8.6 × 17.7 cm (3 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2023.39.193
Credit line
Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • portrait
  • American
  • Civil War
  • African American
  • Virginia
  • Men
  • Stereograph
Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Inscription

along left edge of mount printed in black ink: THE WAR FOR THE UNION.; along right edge: PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.; by unknown hand, bottom center in negative: 2551; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 24.3.KLH / AF235; center printed in black ink on applied paper: WAR VIEWS. / Bombproof Quarters of Maj. Strong, at Dutch Gap, 16th N. Y. Artillery. / No. 2551. / PUBLISHED BY E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., / American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium, 591 Broadway, New York.; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: t17

NGA object ID 227213. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.