"Colored Pickets on Duty Near Dutch Gap"

c. 1864

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

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Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries

Artist, American, 1860 - 1875

E. & H.T. Anthony

Publisher, American, 1862 - 1902

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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Provenance

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

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Inscriptions

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

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