Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery B, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Photographs, Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882), Civil War photographers were most effective at chronicling things that did not move, such as heavy mortars, bridges, tents, and ruins—subjects that cameras had more or less successfully recorded since the medium’s birth twenty years earlier
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Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Battery B, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864, Albumen silver print, glass negative, Photographs, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, American, born Ireland, 1840–1882, Civil War, photographers, effective, chronicling things, move, heavy mortars, bridges, tents, ruins—subjects, cameras, less successfully, recorded, medium, birth, twenty, years, earlier
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