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Atlanta Georgia. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street. Concert hall – Antique Photo Print

Atlanta Georgia. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street. Concert hall, 1864 — historic photograph
Atlanta Georgia. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street. Concert hall, 1864. Historic photograph from the Atlanta collection.

(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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Whitehall Street runs north across the railroad tracks in this stereograph pair, with a concert hall among the buildings in view. The two glass plates were made in 1864, a year when Atlanta was a vital rail hub and the Union army fought for control of it. Union forces took the city in September 1864, and Sherman's army then occupied it, so the scene shows a town shaped by the war's supply lines. The wet collodion negative was a demanding process of the period, and the pair was meant to be seen through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The record once credited the set to Alexander Gardner, a well-known Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since been questioned.

Created / published1864
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCaption from negative sleeve: Atlanta Ga. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan4,248 × 5,120 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-47070

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