Richmond Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district – Antique 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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This historic photograph of Richmond Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Richmond Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district
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Ruined walls and gutted storefronts fill this view of Richmond's burnt district, the commercial core destroyed when fire swept the city in early April 1865. Confederate forces set fires to military stores as they withdrew, and the blaze spread through blocks of downtown buildings before Union troops arrived. This picture is a stereograph, made from two glass plates that were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. It was taken by David B. Woodbury, who documented the aftermath of the war in Richmond, and it gives a close look at how much of the city center was lost.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | 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 | 5,120 × 5,110 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50855 |
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