Materilality and spectacle
Dublin Core
Title
Materilality and spectacle
Collection Items
Stereoscopic images of Rock Creek During Civil War
This is a set of two experimental images in which the project Virtual Gettysburg attempts to allow viewers to experience an original stereoscopic image from the Civil War on a computer screen using 3D glasses. The image itself is of Rock Creek, a…
Scene showing deserted camp and wounded soldier
It seems to show two soldiers (one of which is injured/wounded) at an abandoned/war-torn base. The location is unknown.
- Calen McGee
- Calen McGee
Sketch by Drake, J. Madison (James Madison), 1837-1913 United States. Army. New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1865)
"On his left arm was suspended a large basket, which, on examination, we found contained an immense pone, as all Southerners denominate loaves of bread. The old man was naturally surprised whenwe relieved him of that bread, and tearing it in pieces,…
Women's Suffrage Parade 1913
The first image is the colorful program of the procession in Wasshington D.C. on March 3, 1913. The second image is a lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain on a horse, about to lead the procession. Looking at these two images side-by-side, it is possible…
Bedford County Agricultural Fair
"A 24 page soft-cover program of the Nineteenth Annual Fair of the Bedford County Agriculture Society held in Shelbyville, Tennessee beginning on September 5, 1889. The booklet includes lists of stockholders, advertisements, and the agricultural…