Petersburg Va. vicinity. The execution of William Johnson Jordans farm – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Petersburg Va. vicinity. The execution of William Johnson Jordans farm, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Va. vicinity. The execution of William Johnson Jordans farm
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Taken at Jordan's farm near Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864, this stereograph records the execution of a man named William Johnson while Union forces held siege lines around the city and Robert E. Lee's Confederate army. The photograph is attributed to James F. Gibson, one of the photographers documenting the Petersburg front that year. Its two paired halves were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave the scene an unsettling sense of depth. The catalog files it under African Americans and hangings, a reminder that the war's punishments were recorded alongside its battles.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph 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. 0354 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) Title and photographer attribution from Grant and Lee: the Virginia campaigns 1864-1865 · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--African Americans. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege 1864-1865. Hangings.United States--Virginia--Petersburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,498 × 1,374 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51912 |
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