{"secondaryobjectnumber":"","periodterms":[{"id":2041274,"period":"antebellum"}],"creditline":"Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund","caption":"Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (active 1862–1901, New York, NY), War Views: Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers, ca. 1861–65. Albumen print; 8.6 × 17.5 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2017-28)","cultureterms":[{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"type":"artobject","dimensionsproposed":"","terms":[{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2053981,"term":"stereographs","aatid":300127197,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2153904,"term":"war photography","aatid":300157838,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2041274,"term":"antebellum","aatid":300193796,"termtype":"Period / Style"},{"id":2080678,"term":"canals","aatid":300006075,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053478,"term":"albumen prints","aatid":300127121,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2088735,"term":"soldiers","aatid":300185678,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2158940,"term":"tax stamps","aatid":300191674,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2134553,"term":"wars","aatid":300055314,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2153946,"term":"albumen process","aatid":300133274,"termtype":"Techniques"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place depicted: North America, United States, Virginia, Dutch Gap","code":"Place depicted","continent":"North America","subcontinent":null,"country":"United States","region":null,"state":"Virginia","city":null,"county":"Chesterfield County","subregion":null,"locale":"Dutch Gap","locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/4756768/dutch-gap.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"8.57"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"17.46"}],"markings":"Stamped on left: Photographic History\r\nStamped on right: The War for the Union\r\nTax stamp on verso, upper right\r\nTyped on paper adhered to verso: WAR VIEWS. / Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers. Taken after the bank was blown out. On the / extreme end a portion of the bank remains, which forms a profile, which the soldiers / call Jeff. Davis. / No. 2610 / Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., / American and Foreign Stereoscopic Emporium, 501 Broadway, New-York.","accessionyear":"2017-01-01","newaccession":0,"makers":[{"id":20586,"displayname":"E. & H. T. Anthony & Co.","displaydate":"active 1862–1901, New York, NY","datebegin":1862,"dateend":1901,"prefix":"Published by","suffix":null,"role":"Publisher","displaymaker":"Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., active 1862–1901, New York, NY","displayorder":1}],"datecomputed":1863,"signed":null,"restrictions":null,"classification":"Photographs","packages":[{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":183099,"name":"Photography-19thcentury_01"},{"packageid":152536,"name":"web_CivilWar"},{"packageid":212891,"name":"web_SlaveryIntiative"}],"catalograisonne":null,"classifications":[{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"},{"id":2053478,"classification":"albumen prints"},{"id":2053981,"classification":"stereographs"}],"exhibitions":[],"cultures":[],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2018_29866"],"displaytitle":"War Views: Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers","displayculture":null,"displaymaker":"Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., active 1862–1901, New York, NY","captionhtml":"Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. (active 1862–1901, New York, NY), War Views: Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers, ca. 1861–65. Albumen print; 8.6 × 17.5 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2017-28)","displaydate":"ca. 1861–65","medium":"Albumen print","media":[{"id":213678,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2018_29866","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"},{"id":213679,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/PUAMSTU2018_29867","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM Photo"}],"displayperiod":null,"extended_content":false,"campuscollections":"false","bibliography":[],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Photography","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199325,"term":"North American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1850-1900","dateend":1870,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"War Views: Dutch Gap Canal and Group of Soldiers","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"2017-28","inscribed":"Handwritten in ink on verso, right: No 45.","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Greg French Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA]; purchased by the Princeton Univeristy Art Museum, 2017.\n","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Didactics","textentryhtml":"

Published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., one of the largest suppliers and distributors of photographic supplies in the United States during the nineteenth century, this stereoscopic view represents the Union’s effort in 1864 to widen a small seventeenth-century canal in the James River of Chesterfield County, Virginia. Meant to be viewed through a stereoscopic device to enhance the three-dimensional effect of the landscape, images like this were widely circulated and collected.


In this photograph, nine men stand on the canal bank; most look toward the camera, and one stands closer to the edge, pulling a rope that leads out of the frame. Dressed in uniform, this man could be a soldier in the United States Colored Troops, a group of regiments consisting of non-white soldiers within the Union Army. The back of the card reads, “Taken after the bank was blown out. On the extreme end a portion of the bank remains, which forms a profile, which the soldiers call Jeff. Davis”—a reference to Jefferson Davis, president of the secessionist Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

","remarks":"Slavery Initiative"}],"datebegin":1856,"sortnumber":"2017 28","published_date":"2026-03-05 11:14:53.353448","objectid":129724,"dimensions":"8.6 × 17.5 cm (3 3/8 × 6 7/8 in.)","on_view":false}