Richmond Va. General view – Antique 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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Richmond Va. General view
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Recorded simply as a general view of Richmond, Virginia, this 1865 negative shows the former Confederate capital weeks after Union troops entered the city in early April. Confederate authorities had evacuated Richmond on April 2, and fires set in the days before burned much of its commercial district, so photographs from that spring document a city in its aftermath. The image was made by James F. Gibson, who worked in Richmond that year, using the wet collodion process on a glass negative. That method required the plate to be coated, exposed and developed while still wet, which made field work in the city demanding.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0453 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 | 1,750 × 1,372 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52495 |
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