Richmond Virginia. House – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Richmond Virginia. House. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Richmond Virginia. House
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A single house in Richmond, Virginia, is the subject here, shown as a stereograph taken from a glass negative made with the wet collodion process. The record dates it to 1865, the year Richmond fell to Union forces in April after serving as the capital of the Confederacy. Retreating troops set fire to military stores and the city's business district was largely destroyed in the fires that followed. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, was among those who recorded the city in the months after its fall, and views like this one give a sense of ordinary street life in a city under occupation.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. 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 × 2,357 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50825 |
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