Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg railroad bridge from island in Ja – 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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Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg railroad bridge from island in Ja comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg railroad bridge from island in Ja
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Few views in the gallery show the James River from this angle: a stone-and-timber railroad crossing reduced to ruins, seen from an island in the river. The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad linked the Confederate capital with the supply city of Petersburg, so its bridge was a strategic target. When Confederate forces abandoned Richmond in early April 1865, they burned bridges, warehouses and other structures to deny them to Union troops, and the fire spread through much of the city. David B. Woodbury, who worked in the Richmond and Petersburg area after the fall, recorded the aftermath on wet collodion glass negatives, which preserve the wreckage in fine detail.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. Ruins of R. and P. R.R. bridge from island in James River. 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 × 2,319 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50876 |
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