Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot – Vintage 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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Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot 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 Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot
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Ruins of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad depot stand in this April 1865 view, made in the days after Union troops occupied the Confederate capital. As Confederate forces withdrew, fires set on April 2 and 3 spread through much of the city, and rail facilities were among the structures left as charred shells. The image survives as a stereograph pair, two glass negative plates made by the wet collodion process, meant to be viewed through a stereo viewer for a three-dimensional effect. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866, the year after the war ended.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. April 1865 Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg RR depot. 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 | 5,058 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50877 |
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