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Atlanta Ga. View on Whitehall Street – Antique Photo Print

Atlanta Ga. View on Whitehall Street, 1864 — historic photograph
Atlanta Ga. View on Whitehall Street, 1864. Historic photograph from the Atlanta collection.

(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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Step back in time with Atlanta Ga. View on Whitehall Street, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Atlanta Ga. View on Whitehall Street

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Whitehall Street ran south from the center of Atlanta toward the rail lines, and this stereograph captures it in 1864, the year Union forces under William T. Sherman seized the city in September after a months-long campaign. The image survives as a matched pair of glass plates, which, viewed through a stereoscope, gave the street a striking sense of depth. Stereographs like this were made in large numbers during the war and sold to a public eager to see battlefields and ruined towns. Atlanta's wartime landscape, shaped by railroads and fortifications, makes this view a useful record of the city as it stood under Union occupation.

Created / published1864
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0706 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Atlanta Campaign 1864United States--Georgia--Atlanta.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,256 × 1,356 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46198

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