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.
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!
Hell, is other people! J-P S
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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.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams
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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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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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Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown
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