Richmond Va. Residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee (707 East Franklin Street) – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Va. Residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee (707 East Franklin Street), 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 Va. Residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee (707 East Franklin Street)
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Few houses in the Richmond photographs carry a name as recognizable as this one, since it belonged to Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general whose army had just surrendered at Appomattox when this view was made in 1865. The house at 707 East Franklin Street was a family residence in the years before the war, and the image records it in the weeks when Richmond, the Confederate capital, was occupied and its residents were adjusting to defeat. The picture is a stereograph, made from two glass plates taken from slightly different positions so that the pair produces depth when viewed through a stereoscope. Its photographer, James F. Gibson, was one of several men who documented the ruined and changing city after the war.
| 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. 0512 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865. Lee Robert E.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,326 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52011 |
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