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Legalize the Constitution
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I actually feel kind of honored to be able to present this amazing collection of 288 glass plate photographs to the Forum. I have viewed 100 of them, because you can't rush through this treasure trove of pictures--all identified! You will be amazed

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It is fortunate that these photos have survived. Most 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.


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Those are awesome. Having lived in Virginia for 30 years, I've been to many of those places. Amazing how much DC has changed. Thanks for posting and I assume you did the work of labeling all of them too? That's great!



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Those were great. Some I’d seen, but most not, and especially the portraits.




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Thanks for posting and I assume you did the work of labeling all of them too?

Uh-h no


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Thank you for posting the link.

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Thank you I appreciated that. I was actually able to recognize some of the Generals. Unlike children of today, I studied History in school.
 
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Fantastic photographs. Thanks for sharing.



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Thanks for sharing these - I love looking at the details in the photos and also sometimes finding the spots on Google Maps/street view to see what they look like today.



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Those are amazing spent over an hour looking at them. Thank you for sharing the link!


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Some pretty cool pics, the generals were cool to see




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Those are great. I like this one:



The quality of some of them is fantastic.
 
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Thank you for sharing. Loved the photos. Brings the war to life for me. Will share them with my grand and great grand children.


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Thanks, TMats. I will revisit that site many time to absorb it more. One that jumped right out at me was the unfinished Washington Monument on the Mall in DC. To this day, you can still see where they resumed building it by the slightly different color of the stones.
 
 
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Thank you for posting. Very interesting. I've passed the on to my grandchildren.


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Nice job TMats. Sometimes I think I was born 100 years too late.

The National Historical Society put out a series of six volumes called "The Image of War: 1861-1865" around 1984. Here is the last volume, "The End of an ERA":
https://www.amazon.com/End-Era...54T359JHAFMMMXFE1QNE

Lots of pictures and information if you are studying the Civil War.


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Thanks for sharing. Looked at a few. Need some time to go through them all.


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Thanks, indeed!

I love these old photos.




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