View of the tobacco exchange, corner of Virginia and Cary Streets, Richmond, Virginia – 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.)
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View of the tobacco exchange, corner of Virginia and Cary Streets, Richmond, Virginia comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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View of the tobacco exchange, corner of Virginia and Cary Streets, Richmond, Virginia
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Few American cities were as closely tied to tobacco as Richmond, and this wood engraving shows the tobacco exchange at the corner of Virginia and Cary Streets in 1867. It appeared in *Harper's Weekly*, the illustrated national magazine that often sent artists to report on the postwar South, so it reflects how outside readers saw the city's commercial life just two years after the Civil War. Richmond had long been a center of Virginia's tobacco trade, with warehouses and factories handling leaf from surrounding farms.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | of illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 11 (1867), p. 253. Original volume not available. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Va.--R-; Tobacco--Manuf. & trade; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,157 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136462 |
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