<I>Colored Pickets on Duty Near Dutch Gap</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1864
name: label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Published by
content: E. & H. T. Anthony, American, 1852 - 1901
notes: label: Caption
content: Dutch Gap refers to a Canal dug during the Civil War to cut off a bend in the James River controlled by Confederate forts. Digging of the canal started in late 1864 and among the workers were paid African Americans from the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island. Freedmen in the USCT (including the 116th Regiment out of Kentucky) also took part in the military conflicts at Dutch Gap.
label: Description
content: A reddish brown photograph of two men aiming rifles to the left of the photograph. Both men are wearing Union fatigues, including kepi hats and appear to have a full complement of Union-issue uniforms. They are in matching shoes, pants, coats, belts, sabers, and caps. One man is standing behind the side of a building. The other man is kneeling next to him. His rifle is propped on a barrel. The stereograph is made of two identical photographs. The right photograph is inscribed in the bottom left corner with “2553.” The photographs are adhered to orange card stock with back printed text. Printed on the left side of the card stock is “PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.” Printed on the right side of the card stock is “THE WAR FOR THE UNION.” The back of the stereograph is pink with a blue piece of paper with black text adhered at center. The text reads “WAR VIEWS, / Colored Pickets on duty near Dutch Gap. / No. 2553. / Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., / American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium, 501 Broadway, New-York.”
place: label: Place captured
content: Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Military
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
label: Topic
content: United States Colored Troops
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Liljenquist Family Collection
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Liljenquist Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2018.43.11
objectType: label: Type
content: albumen prints
label: Type
content: stereographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: albumen and silver on paper, ink on card stock
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (card): 3 3/8 × 6 7/8 × 1/16 in. (8.5 × 17.5 × 0.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (left image): 3 1/16 × 3 1/16 in. (7.8 × 7.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (right image): 3 1/16 × 3 1/16 in. (7.8 × 7.7 cm)