Richmond Virginia. View of Belle Isle – Vintage Photo Print
(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 Richmond Virginia. View of Belle Isle 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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Richmond Virginia. View of Belle Isle
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Belle Isle, a rocky island in the James River just below the falls at Richmond, is the subject here, recorded in a stereograph pair made in 1865. During the war the island held Union prisoners in a crowded Confederate camp, and the photograph dates from the months after Richmond fell that spring. David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made the two glass plates, which were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope to give the scene depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Belle Isle Richmond Va. 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 × 4,520 px · prints to 17 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50905 |
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