Petersburg Virginia. Buildings – 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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This historic photograph of Petersburg Virginia. Buildings brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Virginia. Buildings
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Petersburg, Virginia, was a rail hub, and this stereograph records its buildings in April 1865, just after Union forces broke the Confederate lines there on April 2 and took the city. The picture survives as two glass negatives, one for each half of a stereo pair, which when viewed together through a stereoscope gave the scene depth. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, worked with the wet collodion process, which required the plates to be coated and exposed before they dried. His views of the war's aftermath help show how a city that had endured a nearly ten-month siege looked as the fighting moved on.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg Va. April 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 | 5,120 × 5,073 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50492 |
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