Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge
1860s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970
Accession Number
1970.525 (10)
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge** *George N. Barnard, 1860s* Albumen silver print from glass negative The Metropolitan Museum of Art Captured in the 1860s by pioneering photographer George N. Barnard, *Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge* offers a poignant vista of the American Civil War's scarred landscapes. Barnard, known for his documentary work during Union General William T. Sherman's campaigns, used this elevated vantage point on Mission Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to frame Orchard Knob—a modest hill that became a pivotal Union stronghold during the decisive 1863 Battles for ...
About the Artist
George N. Barnard · 1819–present
George N. Barnard (1819–1902) was a pioneering American photographer whose six-decade career spanned the dawn of the medium, from daguerreotypes to Civil War documentation. Born into a farming family in Coventry, Connecticut, on December 23, 1819, he lost his father at age seven and apprenticed in family businesses before marrying in 1843 and relocating to Oswego, New York. There, he launched one ...