Civil War photograph WOUNDED AT SAVAGE STATION Brady's CDV VG

  
Carte de Visite (CDV) from Brady's Album Gallery, No. Very good condition; no scratches; minor bend on top middle and bottom middle. Minor tear in top middle.

We have owned it for over 15 years in a smoke-free home. This was a significant photograph captured by Matthew B. Brady artists during the Civil War, who were following the Union Army from Bull Run to Richmond.

According to an article about the "Near Savage Station" photographs on civilwar. [This image is one of] four images that had date-specific captions under the heading, Near Savage Station. Each referenced the Battle of Gaines Mill on June 27, 1862. To a contemporary viewer following current events, the mention of Savages Station and Gaines Mill together would have recalled the twin disasters that heralded McClellans change of base, or, more correctly, his retreat to the James River. The most evocative of these photographs, entitled Wounded at Savage Station, after the Battle of 27th June, 1862 has caught the eye of viewers and publishers ever since. It is a singular image taken during an active campaign of a site that would be overrun and captured by Confederates the very next day. No other image up to that time had captured such immediacy, or told such a story. WHAT IS A CARTE DE VISITE? Was a type of small photograph which was patented in Paris, France. It was usually made of an. Which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 54.0 mm (2.125 in) × 89 mm (3.5 in) mounted on a card sized 64 mm (2.5 in) × 100 mm (4 in). Each photograph was the size of a. And such photograph cards were traded among friends and visitors. Albums for the collection and display of cards became a common fixture in Victorian parlors. The immense popularity of these card photographs led to the publication and collection of photographs of prominent persons. The item "Civil War photograph WOUNDED AT SAVAGE STATION Brady's CDV VG" is in sale since Thursday, January 05, 2017. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Photographs". The seller is "thingsandsuch23" and is located in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, TH, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, RU, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, CL, CO, CR, DO, PA, TT, GT, SV, HN, JM.