View of the Fairfax County Courthouse with soldiers on horseback in the foreground, Fairfax, Virginia, United States

People:

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (photographer)
Alexander Gardner (printer)
James Bogue (architect)
James Wren (architect)
Mungo Dykes (architect)

Title:

View of the Fairfax County Courthouse with soldiers on horseback in the foreground, Fairfax, Virginia, United States

Date:

June 1863

Description:

- The page accompanying the photograph contains printed text with the title "Fairfax Court-House.". Both the page and the photograph were published in 'Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War' (Gardner, vol. I, n.p.).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print from wet collodion glass plate negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.4 x 22.6 cm secondary support: 30.5 x 40.3 cm

Reference number:

PH1977:0104

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- A brown border frames the photograph. The secondary support is attached to the CCA mount with two tape hinges on the u.l. and u.r. of the verso. A page, approximately the same size as the secondary support, is attached along the left side of the recto and is folded back behind the secondary support.

Inscription:

imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: " June, 1863." imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "No. 3." imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l. to l.r.: "Negative by T.H. O'SULLIVAN."; "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia."; and "Positive by A. GARDNER, 511 7th St., Washington." inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: with a price

Location:

Fairfax; Fairfax County; Virginia; United States

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

courthouse
trees
soldiers
lantern (roof appendage)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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