Broadway Landing Virginia. Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox River – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Broadway Landing Virginia. Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox River in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Broadway Landing Virginia. Pontoon bridge across the Appomattox River
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The view shows Broadway Landing, Virginia, where a pontoon bridge spanned the Appomattox River in 1861, the first year of the Civil War. Military crossings like this one depended on floating spans that could be assembled quickly, so the scene records how armies moved men and supplies over rivers when permanent bridges were scarce. The picture survives as a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass negatives, meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The collection once credited Alexander Gardner, the photographer, with this work, but that attribution has since been questioned.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,074 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47333 |
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