Filling their Canteens
Photograph
Taylor & Huntington
American
Filling their Canteens
From The War for the Union 1861–1865
ca. 1863
Albumen silver print, printed ca. 1885
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 3 3/8 in. (7.9 × 8.6 cm)
Mount: 4 × 6 15/16 in. (10.1 × 17.7 cm)
Museum accession
1981.5971.0015
Inscriptions printed in black ink on mount recto, LC: 1861 / The War For the Union. / 1865 [sideways along edge]
inscribed in image on image recto, BR: 2512 \ 2[illegible] [crossed out]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 2512. Filling their Canteens. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 2512. / Filling their Canteens \ Comrades all remember how eagerly they made a rush for "the \ old well," when on a long and dusty march they came to a plan- \ tation with its cool "spring house," or its deep dark well. This \ view shows the familiar scene of filling the canteens; the well \ has been covered with canvas and a guard placed over it to pre- \ vent any waste of water, for a well, however deep and capacious, \ soon becomes dry when the army commence to draw water. \ 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, LC: 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
inscribed in image on image recto, BR: 2512 \ 2[illegible] [crossed out]
printed in black ink on mount recto, BR: 2512. Filling their Canteens. \ [FOR DESCRIPTION OF THIS VIEW SEE THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS CARD.]
printed in black ink on mount recto, RC: 2512. / Filling their Canteens \ Comrades all remember how eagerly they made a rush for "the \ old well," when on a long and dusty march they came to a plan- \ tation with its cool "spring house," or its deep dark well. This \ view shows the familiar scene of filling the canteens; the well \ has been covered with canvas and a guard placed over it to pre- \ vent any waste of water, for a well, however deep and capacious, \ soon becomes dry when the army commence to draw water. \ 1861 / Photographic War History. 1865 [sideways along edge]
printed in black ink on mount verso, LC: 1861—PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY.—1865 \ This series of pictures are ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS taken [...] [sideways]
