Richmond Va. Ruined buildings in the burned district – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Richmond Va. Ruined buildings in the burned district 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. Ruined buildings in the burned district
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Few Richmond views from 1865 document the destruction as directly as this stereograph, which shows ruined buildings in the city's burned district. Fire swept through much of the downtown in early April 1865, as Confederate forces abandoned the Confederate capital and Union troops moved in. The photograph was made on a glass wet collodion negative, a process that required the photographer to prepare and expose each plate on the spot. Its stereo format, meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, gave viewers at the time a sense of depth among the collapsed walls and empty lots.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0479 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.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,362 × 1,358 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52500 |
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