Petersburg Virginia. Interior view of Confederate works near Elliotts salient – 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 Petersburg Virginia. Interior view of Confederate works near Elliotts salient in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Petersburg Virginia. Interior view of Confederate works near Elliotts salient
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The stereograph shows the Confederate earthworks around Elliott's Salient at Petersburg, Virginia, where the Crater fighting of July 1864 had left the ground torn and scarred. The caption dates the scene to April 3, 1865, the day Union troops entered Petersburg after Robert E. Lee's army abandoned the city and its defenses. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made the pair of glass plates with a wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat and expose each plate on the spot. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two halves give the trenches and parapets real depth, which is why stereographs were so popular with viewers after the war.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior of Confederate fortifications Petersburg Va. April 3 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 × 5,084 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50576 |
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