THESE PICTURES ARE VERY PROFOUND It is fortunate that these 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 were used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear. These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge and to read the caption. Then click the back button to review another picture. http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/index1024.htm Thanks to Lillian McLean for sharing
Thank you for forwarding these. Makes it all horribly real. Such a terrible waste, and we did it to ourselves ! -----Original Message----- From: L. L. Scott <llscott2000@bellsouth.net> To: FLWFGS <fl-wfgs@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 2:27 pm Subject: [FL-WFGS] Civil War Photos THESE PICTURES ARE VERY PROFOUND It is fortunate that these 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 were used in green houses. Over the years the sun caused the images to disappear. These are pretty amazing considering they were taken up to 150 years ago: A compendium of photos from era of the War Between the States. Run the cursor over the photograph and the picture caption will pop up. Click photo to enlarge and to read the caption. Then click the back button to review another picture. http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/New/Originals2/index.html http://www.mikelynaugh.com/VirtualCivilWar/index1024.htm Thanks to Lillian McLean for sharing ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message