The Comforts of Home: 1861

From 1861, a second look at these Northern infantry campers — and our first glimpse of their puppy. “District of Columbia. Tent life of the 31st (later, 82nd) Pennsylvania Infantry at Queen’s Farm, vicinity of Fort Slocum.” View full size. Wet-plate glass negative, left half of stereo pair, photographer unknown. This has a lot in common with the pictures Dorothea Lange would be taking 75 years later of Dust Bowl migrants in the agricultural tent camps of California.