City Point Virginia. Railroad yard and transports – 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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This rare historic photograph captures City Point Virginia. Railroad yard and transports in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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City Point Virginia. Railroad yard and transports
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Made at City Point, Virginia, where a railroad yard and transports sat along the James River, this view survives as two glass stereograph halves meant to be seen together through a stereoscope, plus a variant plate of the same scene. The record credits James F. Gibson, born in 1828, and dates the view to 1861. City Point later became a major Union supply base, when rail lines and river transports moved troops and stores during the war. Wet collodion glass plates like these were the standard medium of the period, and their fragility helps explain why the set is worth noticing.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: City Point Va. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,114 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52636 |
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