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Richmond Va. Ruins of the Exchange Bank (Main Street) with the facade nearly intact – Historic Photograph Print

Richmond Va. Ruins of the Exchange Bank (Main Street) with the facade nearly intact, 1865 — historic photograph
Richmond Va. Ruins of the Exchange Bank (Main Street) with the facade nearly intact, 1865. Historic photograph from the Richmond collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Richmond Va. Ruins of the Exchange Bank (Main Street) with the facade nearly intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Richmond Va. Ruins of the Exchange Bank (Main Street) with the facade nearly intact

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The front wall of the Exchange Bank on Main Street still stands in this view of Richmond, while the building behind it has been gutted. The city burned on April 2 and 3, 1865, as Confederate forces abandoned the capital and fire spread through the downtown blocks. James F. Gibson made this wet collodion stereograph, with two glass plates meant to be viewed together for a sense of depth. Pairs like this were popular in the years after the war.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0504 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865.United States--Virginia--Richmond.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,330 × 1,352 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-52505

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