Richmond Virginia. View of river. (Steamer MONOHANSETT shown) – 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 river. (Steamer MONOHANSETT shown). Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Richmond Virginia. View of river. (Steamer MONOHANSETT shown)
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A steamer named the Monohansett rides the water in this 1865 view of Richmond, Virginia, a city that had been the Confederate capital until Union troops occupied it in early April of that year. Photographers followed the army into the battered city to record its waterfront and wartime damage. This image survives as one half of a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass, made by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two plates merged into a single three-dimensional scene.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | 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 | 5,068 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50913 |
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