Richmond Va. Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mill – Historic 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. Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mill comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Va. Ruins of the Gallego Flour Mill
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Few Richmond scenes capture the aftermath of the Civil War as directly as the ruins of the Gallego Flour Mill. Richmond had served as the Confederate capital, and when the city fell in early April 1865, fires set during the evacuation, aggravated by strong winds, destroyed much of the downtown and riverfront industry. Photographer James F. Gibson, born in 1828, recorded the damage on a glass stereograph negative made with the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated, exposed, and developed before it dried. The picture offers a useful view of how the city's commercial district looked in the months after the fighting ended.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0488 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. Mills.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,586 × 1,366 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52159 |
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