Petersburg Va. Mills on the Appomattox River near Campbells Bridge – 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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Petersburg Va. Mills on the Appomattox River near Campbells Bridge comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Va. Mills on the Appomattox River near Campbells Bridge
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The mills on the Appomattox River near Campbells Bridge stand at the edge of Petersburg, Virginia, a city that endured a long siege from June 1864 until the spring of 1865. The river's waterpower made such milling sites important to the local economy before the war, and the fighting around the city left the surrounding area heavily damaged. The picture was made in 1865 using the wet collodion process on glass, which required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate within a short window. Its publisher, the War Photograph and Exhibition Company, issued views like this for a public eager to see the places where the war had been fought.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0447 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,672 × 1,348 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52226 |
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