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The image shows two individuals with rifles standing by the corner of a wooden building. One person is standing and aiming a rifle through a window of the building while the other is crouched and also aiming a rifle, using a large barrel for cover. The building is made of horizontal wooden planks with open windows, one of which has a wooden shutter. Debris and rocks are scattered around the base of the building, and there is a patch of dirt in the foreground. The image is framed in yellow with the text "Photographic History" and "The War for the Union."
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The image shows two individuals with rifles standing by the corner of a wooden building. One person is standing and aiming a rifle through a window of the building while the other is crouched and also aiming a rifle, using a large barrel for cover. The building is made of horizontal wooden planks with open windows, one of which has a wooden shutter. Debris and rocks are scattered around the base of the building, and there is a patch of dirt in the foreground. The image is framed in yellow with the text "Photographic History" and "The War for the Union."

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

"Colored Pickets on Duty Near Dutch Gap"

Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, E. & H.T. Anthony

Date
c. 1864
Medium
stereoscopic albumen silver print
Dimensions
image (each): 8 × 7.9 cm (3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.) sheet: 8 × 16 cm (3 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.) mount: 8.3 × 18.2 cm (3 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2023.39.194
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: PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY; along right edge: THE WAR FOR THE UNION.; by unknown hand, bottom center in negative: 2553; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied paper: WAR VIEWS. / Colored Pickets on duty near Dutch Gap. / No. 2553. / PUBLISHED BY E. & H. T. ANTHONY & CO., / American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium, 501 Broadway, New York.; by Ross Kelbaugh, bottom left in graphite: AF235A / 8.201UGU

NGA object ID 227214. 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.