Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Mill dam on Appomattox River – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Mill dam on Appomattox River comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Virginia (vicinity). Mill dam on Appomattox River
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Rather than a battlefield or a street, this view shows a mill dam on the Appomattox River in the countryside near Petersburg, Virginia. The river ran past the town during the Siege of Petersburg, which lasted from mid-1864 until Union forces broke the Confederate lines in early April 1865, and the photograph dates from that year. David B. Woodbury, who worked in the area after the fighting, made the image. It was recorded as a stereograph, so its two glass plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope to give the dam a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg Va. vicinity Miller Dam on Appomatox River. See: History of the Civil War by Lossing p. 391. 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 | 5,115 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50467 |
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