Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge
1864/66
Medium
Albumen print, plate 10 from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign" (1866)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 25.4 × 35.8 cm (10 × 14 1/8 in.); Album page: 41 × 50.9 cm (16 3/16 × 20 1/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145430
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 ...