Richmond Virginia. View of the canal – Antique Photo 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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Richmond Virginia. View of the canal comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Richmond Virginia. View of the canal
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Taken in April 1865, this stereograph shows the canal at Richmond, Virginia, in the days after Union forces occupied the Confederate capital when its government evacuated. It was made from two glass negatives, one for each eye, so the scene could be seen in depth through a stereoscope, a popular parlor viewer of the period. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died the following year, and his views of the city at the close of the war are among the early photographic records of Richmond's surrender. The canal was a working waterway, so the picture offers a glimpse of ordinary life continuing in the aftermath of the fighting.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View of the Canal Richmond Va. April 1865. 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 × 5,074 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50915 |
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