. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Copyright by Review of Reviews Co. A HORSE AND RIDER THAT WILL LIVE Here is an extraordinary photograph of a spirited charger taken half a century ago. This noble beast isthe mount of C. B. Norton, and was photographed at General Fitz John Porters rider is Colonel Norton himself. Such clear definition of every feature of man and horse might well bethe envy of modern photography, which does not achieve such depth without fast lenses, focal-
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Copyright by Review of Reviews Co. A HORSE AND RIDER THAT WILL LIVE Here is an extraordinary photograph of a spirited charger taken half a century ago. This noble beast isthe mount of C. B. Norton, and was photographed at General Fitz John Porters rider is Colonel Norton himself. Such clear definition of every feature of man and horse might well bethe envy of modern photography, which does not achieve such depth without fast lenses, focal-planeshutters, and instantaneous dry plates, which can be developed at leisure. Here the old-time wet-plateprocess has preserved every detail. To secure results like this it was necessary to sensitize the plate justbefore exposing it, uncap the lens by hand, and develop the negative within five minutes after the ■ OM -:ix. PHOTOGRAPHING THE CIVIL WAR By Henry ^^^YSHAM Lanier EXTRAORDINARY as tlie fact seems, the AmericanCivil ^Var is the only great war of which we have anade(niate history in pliotograjjhs: that is to say, this is tlieonly conflict of the first magnitude^ in the worlds history thatcan he really illustrated. with a pictorial record which isindisjjutahly authentic, vividly illuminating, and the final evi-dence in any question of detail. Here is a much more important historical fact than thecasual reader realizes. The earliest records we have of thehuman race are purely pictorial. History, even of the mostshadowy and legendary sort, goes l)ack hardly more than tenthousand years. But in recent years there have been recov-ered in certain caves of France scratched and carved bonewea])ons and rough wall-paintings which tell us some dra-matic events in the lives of men who lived probably a hundredthousand years before the earliest of those seven strata ofancient Troy, which indefati
Size: 1046px × 2388px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidphotographichist01mill
