Petersburg Virginia. Bollingbroke street – 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. Bollingbroke street 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. Bollingbroke street
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Bollingbroke Street in Petersburg, Virginia, is the subject here, photographed in 1865 just after Union forces took the city in early April, ending a siege of nearly ten months. David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made the picture as a stereograph, with two glass negative plates exposed side by side so that viewers could see the scene in depth through a stereoscope. The wet collodion process he used required each plate to be coated and exposed before it dried, which makes these views of a war-worn Southern city a notable record of its final months.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Bollingbroke St. Petersburg Va. Miller vol. 3 p. 275. 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 × 5,051 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50488 |
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