U.S. Transport in Rapids, Tennessee River/The Suck - Tennessee River below Chattanooga, looking down stream
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.65.397
Tags
Art Historical Context
Captured around 1864 by photographers George N. Barnard and Mathew B. Brady, *U.S. Transport in Rapids, Tennessee River/The Suck - Tennessee River below Chattanooga, looking down stream* offers a gripping view of a Union transport boat battling treacherous rapids on the Tennessee River. The image, an albumen silver print from a glass negative, showcases the dramatic interplay of churning waters, rugged hills, and the sturdy vessel forging ahead, evoking the perilous navigation faced by Federal forces during the American Civil War. This photograph holds immense historical significance, documen...
About the Artist
George N. Barnard|Mathew B. Brady · 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 ...