Richmond Va. New York newspaper correspondents row (between 4th and 5th Streets) – Historic Photo 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 Richmond Va. New York newspaper correspondents row (between 4th and 5th Streets) in remarkable 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 Va. New York newspaper correspondents row (between 4th and 5th Streets)
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Between Fourth and Fifth Streets in Richmond, this stereograph pair shows the quarters of correspondents for New York newspapers, who followed Union forces into the Confederate capital after its fall in early April 1865. Their dispatches carried news of the occupation, the damaged city, and the surrender to readers in the North. James F. Gibson, who had worked with Alexander Gardner, made the photograph, and its two halves were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope for a sense of depth. The scene is a reminder that the war was also reported in print, and that the people writing about it were part of the story.
| 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. 0528 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--Communications. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865. War correspondents.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,210 × 1,350 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52490 |
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