Saturday, September 6, 2025

1940 Project | One Room Brick Schoolhouse

 






1940 Project // 1830s Brick One Room Schoolhouse
Brunswick, New York

Captured with a 1940s Battlefield Survey ANSCO large format camera. Part of an ongoing series of subjects that could have been captured in the 1800s, honoring both history and the antique analog process.

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1940 Project | Various Locations, Capital Region











1940 Project | Various Locations
Capital Region

Subjects across various locations in the Capital Region, chosen for their timelessness to fit the analog nature of the process. Paper negatives created with a 1940s-era Ansco Field Camera, War Department edition, originally designed for battlefield survey work.

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1940 Project | Grave of Unknown Civil War Soldier




1940 Project | Albany Rural Cemetery

The Grave of the Unknown Soldier, Albany Rural Cemetery. Two views of the Civil War memorial, rendered on paper negatives using a 1940s-era Ansco Field Camera, War Department edition—originally designed for battlefield survey work.

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Monday, September 1, 2025

Receiving Vaults | Albany Rural Cemetery



The Receiving Vaults | Albany Rural Cemetery, 1850s

These arched stone vaults, built into the slopes of Albany Rural Cemetery in the 1850s, served as receiving chambers. They were used when winter froze the ground or when burials were delayed, part of the cemetery’s hidden infrastructure.

In 1862, the federal government purchased land within the cemetery to establish a Soldiers’ Lot. Union soldiers who died in Albany’s hospitals, or who were transported north for burial, were laid to rest there. While the hillside vaults were not exclusive to the war effort, they stood ready during that time, part of the same landscape that received the dead of the conflict.

More than 140 Civil War soldiers now lie in the Soldiers’ Lot, just beyond these walls. The receiving vaults remain a reminder that some of the city’s deepest history runs underground, in places most people will never see.

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