Appomattox Court House Va. McLean house – Antique 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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Step back in time with Appomattox Court House Va. McLean house, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Appomattox Court House Va. McLean house
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The McLean house at Appomattox Court House is the building where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the main Confederate field army's war. Photographed the same year, this glass negative shows the dwelling as it stood after the surrender, when the village had become a symbol of the war's close. Notice that the picture records a plain residence rather than the courthouse named in its title, a reminder of how the setting was defined by the meeting that took place inside it.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| 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. 0450 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. Dwellings.United States--Virginia--Appomattox Court House. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,700 × 1,342 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46603 |
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