Richmond Virginia. Burnt district. Pratts Castle on Gambles Hill in background – Antique 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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A window into the past: Richmond Virginia. Burnt district. Pratts Castle on Gambles Hill in background, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Richmond Virginia. Burnt district. Pratts Castle on Gambles Hill in background
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Among the Richmond views on this board, this stereograph stands out for its wide look at the "burnt district," with Pratt's Castle visible on Gambles Hill beyond the ruins. The city's commercial core was badly damaged in early April 1865, when fires set as Confederate forces withdrew spread through downtown as Union troops entered the capital. David B. Woodbury made the pair of glass negatives within weeks of that destruction, and the paired images were meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. Woodbury died in 1866, and his plates remain among the most direct records of the damage.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. 1865 Burnt District. 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 × 5,101 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50802 |
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