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Great article!
The Revolutionary War was fought between Great Britain and her American colonies from 1775 to 1783 over Americans' desire for independence. Ultimately, the colonial forces prevailed, and, as we all know today, the United States became an independent nation…..
Fast forward about eight decades, and the US found itself embroiled in yet another conflict: the American Civil War. It was around this time that two brothers, Nelson and Roswell Moore, photographers from Connecticut, got the idea to use the then-nascent technology of photography to preserve images of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolution.
m.dpreview.com
The Revolutionary War was fought between Great Britain and her American colonies from 1775 to 1783 over Americans' desire for independence. Ultimately, the colonial forces prevailed, and, as we all know today, the United States became an independent nation…..
Fast forward about eight decades, and the US found itself embroiled in yet another conflict: the American Civil War. It was around this time that two brothers, Nelson and Roswell Moore, photographers from Connecticut, got the idea to use the then-nascent technology of photography to preserve images of the last surviving veterans of the American Revolution.
How two brothers tried to photograph the last survivors of the Revolutionary War
In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have fought alongside George Washington.
m.dpreview.com
