Richmond Virginia. Washington monument – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Richmond Virginia. Washington monument, preserved in this historic photograph. 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. Washington monument
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The stereograph shows the Washington Monument in Capitol Square, the public green at the center of Richmond, Virginia, which was built to honor George Washington and completed in 1858. Photographed in 1865, it was taken in the months after Union forces occupied the Confederate capital in April, when the city was full of soldiers, visitors and damage from the fighting and the fires that swept the business district. The negative was made by David B. Woodbury, who documented the war and its aftermath with a wet collodion glass plate, a process that required the photographer to prepare and expose each plate on site.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. Washington Monument. 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 | 5,120 × 2,397 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50921 |
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