Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot. (Destroyed locomo – Historic 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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A window into the past: Richmond Virginia. Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg Railroad depot. (Destroyed locomo, preserved in this historic photograph. 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 depot. (Destroyed locomo
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Few pictures from Richmond in the spring of 1865 show the damage as plainly as this view of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad depot, where the wreckage includes destroyed locomotives. Confederate authorities and the army left the city in early April 1865, and fires set during the evacuation spread through warehouses and rail yards before Union troops arrived. David B. Woodbury made the image as a stereograph, a pair of slightly offset views meant to be seen together in a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. Woodbury died in 1866, and his glass negatives are now held by the Library of Congress.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. April 1865 Ruins of Richmond & Petersburg R.R. depot. 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 | 5,075 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52773 |
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