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Atlanta Georgia. Railroad yards – Antique Print

Atlanta Georgia. Railroad yards, 1864 — historic photograph
Atlanta Georgia. Railroad yards, 1864. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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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Atlanta Georgia. Railroad yards

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Atlanta was one of the most important rail junctions in the Confederacy, and this stereograph records its railroad yards in 1864, the year Union forces under William T. Sherman captured the city. The picture exists as two glass negatives that form the left and right halves of a stereo pair, meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. Both plates were made with the wet collodion process, which required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate before it dried, so field work like this was slow and demanding. The catalog record notes that these views were once credited to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since been revised.

Created / published1864
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCaption from negative sleeve: Atlanta Ga. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan3,000 × 3,371 px · prints to 10 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-47073

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