Ruins of the passenger station (car shed) Atlanta Ga. - Nov. 1864 – Historic 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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Step back in time with Ruins of the passenger station (car shed) Atlanta Ga. - Nov. 1864, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ruins of the passenger station (car shed) Atlanta Ga. - Nov. 1864
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The car shed at Atlanta's passenger station appears here as a skeleton of bare timbers and collapsed roofing. The city's rail lines made it a key target during the Atlanta Campaign, and Union forces held the city from early September 1864. Before marching toward Savannah in mid-November, Sherman's troops burned depots, warehouses and factories to deny their use to the Confederacy, and this view records the aftermath. Stereograph cards like this one were viewed through a special lens, which gave viewers at home a three-dimensional look at the destruction.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Title from item. Original neg. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Railroad stations--Georgia--Atlanta--1860-1870. War damage--Georgia--Atlanta--1860-1870. Atlanta Campaign 1864. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,898 × 2,512 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268523 |
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