Petersburg Virginia. House – Antique 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Petersburg Virginia. House 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. House
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The subject here is a single house in Petersburg, Virginia, recorded as a stereograph, a paired image meant to be seen through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. The city was a major target during the Civil War. Union forces besieged it for roughly ten months, from mid-1864 until the Confederate lines broke in early April 1865, and photographers working there in 1865 recorded the damage left by the fighting. David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made this wet collodion glass negative, and its two plates preserve the scene in the stereo format that was popular in the period.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg 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 | 4,985 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50574 |
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