Ruins of Mayos Bridge Richmond Va. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Ruins of Mayos Bridge Richmond Va. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mayo's Bridge carried traffic across the James River between Richmond and Manchester, and this view records what was left of it after the Confederate capital fell in early April 1865. As Confederate forces withdrew, they burned bridges and other structures to slow pursuing Union troops, and the fires left this crossing in ruins. The photograph belongs to the Brady-Handy Collection, the large body of Civil War-era views assembled by Mathew Brady and Levin Handy, and it was published by Taylor & Huntington. Its subject, a shattered river crossing, reflects the wider destruction that marked the war's end in Richmond.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Brady-Handy Collection. No. 3271. · Taylor & Huntington publisher. |
| Subjects | War damage--Virginia--Richmond--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,584 × 3,072 px · prints to 9 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52271 |
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