Richmond Virginia. Group of Negroes (Freedmen) by canal – 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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A window into the past: Richmond Virginia. Group of Negroes (Freedmen) by canal, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Virginia. Group of Negroes (Freedmen) by canal
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Taken in Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, this stereograph shows a group of Black residents, described in the original title as freedmen, gathered beside a canal. Union forces took the city in early April 1865, and in the weeks that followed, photographers such as David B. Woodbury recorded the damaged capital and the people moving through it as slavery ended. The image survives as a wet collodion glass negative, a fragile format of the period, and belongs to the Library of Congress Civil War glass negative collection. The caption does not say what brought the group to the canal, but the picture offers a rare view of everyday life along Richmond's waterfront at the close of the war.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. 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 × 2,361 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50820 |
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