Hampton Va. Brick chimneys etc. of burned houses – Historic Photograph 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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This rare historic photograph captures Hampton Va. Brick chimneys etc. of burned houses in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hampton Va. Brick chimneys etc. of burned houses
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Only brick chimneys stand among the ruins in this stereograph of Hampton, Virginia, the houses around them reduced to rubble. Confederate forces set the town on fire in August 1861 as they withdrew ahead of Union troops, and views like this one show how little of it survived. The photographer, James F. Gibson, was associated with Mathew Brady's studio, and the image is a glass stereograph made from a wet collodion negative. The catalog dates it to 1860, which is earlier than the burning, so that date may be an error.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0577 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. Hampton (Va.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865United States--Virginia--Hampton. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,708 × 1,366 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51906 |
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