Richmond Va. Chimneys standing in the burned district – Historic Reproduction
(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. Chimneys standing in the burned district, 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. Chimneys standing in the burned district
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Chimneys rising above ruin are what set this stereograph apart from the other Richmond views on the board: the brick stacks stand alone where the houses and shops around them have burned away. The fire of April 1865 destroyed much of the city's business district as Confederate authorities evacuated and Union forces took the capital, and the scene shows how little was left standing afterward. James F. Gibson, who made many Civil War views for the photographic trade, recorded it on wet collodion glass, and the two plates were meant to be seen together through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : 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. 0483 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,354 × 1,358 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52492 |
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