Richmond Virginia. View on the canal – Historic Print
(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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A window into the past: Richmond Virginia. View on the canal, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Virginia. View on the canal
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Taken in 1865, this view shows the canal at Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital, which Union forces occupied in April of that year after the city was largely evacuated and partly burned. The James River and Kanawha Canal ran along the James River through the city, and its locks, mills, and warehouses were central to Richmond's industry before the war. The negative is a glass stereograph made with the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat, expose, and develop plates on the spot. David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made it as part of the wartime photographic record of the South, and it is a useful document of the city's condition just after the war ended.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. view on the Canal. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 2,400 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50920 |
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