James River Va. Schooners sunk to obstruct passage – Antique 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.)
Description
James River Va. Schooners sunk to obstruct passage 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.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
James River Va. Schooners sunk to obstruct passage
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
Sunk across the James River in Virginia, these schooners were placed to block Union warships from steaming upriver toward Richmond. The scene shows how both sides used hulks as barriers during the final campaign of the war in 1865. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866. The picture was made as a stereograph, a pair of images meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect, a format that brought wartime scenes into parlors.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0333 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Naval operations. Government vessels. Naval warfare.United States--Virginia--James River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,324 × 1,364 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51809 |
More from the Schooners collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[Sailboats sailing]: Group of schooners](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d0/d0c3bbc9e111-400.webp)
![[Americans convertng canoes into schooners, in the Bay of Panama]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3d/3d6fa87ae962-400.webp)
