Richmond Va. Crowd before headquarters of the U.S. Christian Commission – Antique 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.)
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A window into the past: Richmond Va. Crowd before headquarters of the U.S. Christian Commission, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Richmond Va. Crowd before headquarters of the U.S. Christian Commission
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A crowd gathers in front of the headquarters of the U.S. Christian Commission in Richmond, Virginia, in this 1865 view. The Commission was a Protestant relief organization that supplied Union soldiers with food, clothing, reading material, and religious comfort, and its presence in the Confederate capital in the months after the city fell that April reflects the Union's occupation. The picture was made as a stereograph, a pair of plates that produce a three-dimensional effect when viewed together, and it was taken by James F. Gibson using the wet collodion process. Viewers can study the faces and clothing of the people on the street to get a sense of the city's daily life in the war's last weeks.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0527 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,336 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52493 |
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