Nashville Tennessee. Railroad depot – Historic 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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This historic photograph of Nashville Tennessee. Railroad depot brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Nashville Tennessee. Railroad depot
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Nashville's rail depot is the subject here, captured as a stereograph, a pair of side-by-side exposures meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. Union forces had held Nashville since early 1862, and its railroads carried troops, supplies, and wounded men for the Federal armies in the western theater. The plates were made with the wet collodion process on glass, and the photographer is attributed to David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866. Because the scene was recorded during the war, the depot offers a rare view of the logistics behind Union control of the region.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Nashville Tenn. Railroad Depot. Photographers name attributed in Civil War caption books. 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 × 5,059 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50386 |
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