Point of Rocks Virginia (vicinity). Redoubt Zabriskie. – Antique Photo 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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Step back in time with Point of Rocks Virginia (vicinity). Redoubt Zabriskie., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Point of Rocks Virginia (vicinity). Redoubt Zabriskie.
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The name "Redoubt Zabriskie" marks this view as a fortified position, not a town scene: a small, enclosed earthwork built to guard the crossing at Point of Rocks, where the Potomac River cuts through the ridges near the Virginia shore. In 1864, Union forces held this stretch of the river and the railroad that ran beside it, and such redoubts were raised to protect supply lines during the fighting in the Shenandoah Valley. The picture is a stereograph, made from two glass negatives taken a short distance apart, so that viewed through a stereoscope the earthworks appear to stand out in depth. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made images like this one for the wartime trade in army views.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Redoubt ZABRISKIE. 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 × 5,076 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50643 |
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