Richmond Va. Side view of Libby Prison – 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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Step back in time with Richmond Va. Side view of Libby Prison, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Va. Side view of Libby Prison
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Libby Prison stood on Carey Street in Richmond, Virginia, where Union officers were held during the Civil War in a converted warehouse built for the tobacco and grocery trade. This 1865 side view, made as a wet collodion glass stereograph, shows the building's long brick walls and rows of windows from an angle that reveals its size. Mathew Brady's studio is credited with the picture, which was compiled in the Library of Congress's Civil War photograph collection. The prison became one of the best-known Confederate detention sites, and images like this one record a structure that many Northern readers knew from accounts of its conditions.
| 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. 0463 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Detention facilities. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865. Prisons.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,332 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52481 |
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