Richmond Virginia. View of Tredegar Iron Works – Historic Photograph 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Richmond Virginia. View of Tredegar Iron Works. 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 Virginia. View of Tredegar Iron Works
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The Tredegar Iron Works, on the James River below downtown Richmond, was the Confederacy's most important source of cannon, rolled iron, and armor plate. This stereograph shows it in 1865, as the war was ending and the city had just been abandoned and occupied. David B. Woodbury made it as a pair of glass negatives, to be viewed through a stereoscope so the works appear to have depth. Views like this one let Northern audiences see up close the industry that had sustained the Southern war effort.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. View of the Tredegar Iron Works. 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 | 5,046 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50918 |
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