Civil War Magic Lantern Slide 50th New York Engineers

  

Civil War magic lantern slide, picturing a singular pontoon wagon and boat identified as belonging to the 50th New York Engineers at Rappahannock Station, Virginia in March 1864. Glass slide is from the collection of Taylor & Huntington of Hartford, Connecticut, a team of Civil War veterans who published slides in the late 19th century of images originally taken by Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner.