Petersburg Virginia. Damaged houses – Vintage Photo 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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Petersburg Virginia. Damaged houses comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Virginia. Damaged houses
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Shot in Petersburg, Virginia, in April 1865, this stereograph pair records damaged houses in the city as the long siege was ending. Union forces entered Petersburg in early April after Confederate lines around it broke, and months of fighting had left many buildings scarred. Photographer David B. Woodbury made the image as two slightly offset views that produced a three-dimensional effect in a viewer, a format that brought war scenes into parlors. The wet collodion glass negatives he used demanded quick, careful work in the field.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg Va. April 1865. 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 | 5,092 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50523 |
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