Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia, 1865, Collodion glass negative, Image: 21.6 × 25.6 cm (8 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.), Negatives, Thomas C. Roche (American, 1826–1895), Like their military counterparts, Civil War field photographers had to carry all their 'battlefield' equipment with them in specially designed mobile studios and darkrooms. In addition to cameras and lenses, the artists traveled with blankets, sensitizing and developing tents, volatile chemicals, and extremely fragile and heavy glass plates
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