Richmond Va. Franklin Street including the residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee (second – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Richmond Va. Franklin Street including the residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee (second in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Va. Franklin Street including the residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee (second
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Franklin Street, with the residence of Gen. Robert E. Lee, is pictured in this 1865 stereograph, a pair of glass negatives meant to be seen together through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. Richmond had served as the Confederate capital since 1861, and the year the photograph was made was the year the city fell to Union forces in April. Photographers including James F. Gibson recorded the streets and buildings of the occupied city, and views like this one, of a house tied to the Confederacy's most famous general, were widely sold as souvenirs of the war's end. The image is a useful record of a residential street at a turning point in the city's history.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0511 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865. Lee Robert E.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,354 × 1,356 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52010 |
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