Charles City Court House Va. Ruins of houses – Antique 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 historic photograph of Charles City Court House Va. Ruins of houses brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charles City Court House Va. Ruins of houses
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Few courthouse towns in eastern Virginia came through the war unmarked, and this stereograph records the ruins of houses at Charles City Court House in 1864, amid the wider upheaval of that year's campaigns in Virginia. It is a glass stereograph made with the wet collodion process, a pair of nearly identical exposures meant to be viewed together for a sense of depth. The photographer, James F. Gibson, worked in the Virginia theater during the war. The village sits in Charles City County on the James River east of Richmond, and the picture shows it in the condition the fighting had left behind.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| 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. 0320 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. Wilderness Battle of the Va. 1864.United States--Virginia--Charles City Court House. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,272 × 1,352 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52580 |
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