Richmond Virginia. St. Johns Church from street – Vintage Photo 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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Step back in time with Richmond Virginia. St. Johns Church from 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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Richmond Virginia. St. Johns Church from street
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Few churches in Richmond carry as much early history as St. John's on Church Hill, where Patrick Henry is traditionally said to have delivered his 1775 call for resistance to Britain. This view, taken from the street in 1865, is one half of a stereograph pair, two side-by-side images that a stereoscope merged into a single three-dimensional scene. Photographer David B. Woodbury made it on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required the plate to be coated and exposed before it dried. The date matters: Union forces took the Confederate capital that April, so the picture records a city newly under federal control.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: St. Johns Church Richmond Va. 1865. 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 | 5,118 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50889 |
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