Nashville Tennessee. Fortified bridge over the Cumberland River – 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 Nashville Tennessee. Fortified bridge over the Cumberland River in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Nashville Tennessee. Fortified bridge over the Cumberland River
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A pair of glass plates makes this view of a fortified bridge over the Cumberland River at Nashville a stereograph, two slightly offset exposures meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. Union forces had held Nashville since early 1862, and by 1864 the city's river crossings were guarded because its rail and supply lines were vital to the Union war effort. The caption identifies the scene as a guarded bridge, and the photographer is attributed to David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866. The wet collodion glass negative shows the exacting process of the Civil War era.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Guarding Cumberland bridge at Nashville Tenn. 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 × 4,984 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50385 |
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