Richmond Va. Monumental Church – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures Richmond Va. Monumental Church in remarkable detail. 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. Monumental Church
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Few buildings in Richmond carry a sadder origin than the Monumental Church, which stands on the site of the 1811 Richmond theater fire that killed dozens of people, including the governor of Virginia. Built after that disaster as a memorial, the church shows in this 1865 view the austere classical lines that made it a landmark on Broad Street. The picture was made as a glass stereograph, one of a pair meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, and it was issued by the E. & H.T. Anthony firm. It dates from the year Union forces took the Confederate capital, when the city's public buildings were a common subject for photographers documenting the war's end.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0518 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865. Churches.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,334 × 1,360 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46529 |
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