Petersburg Virginia. Damage to garden wall – Vintage Wall Art
(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 rare historic photograph captures Petersburg Virginia. Damage to garden wall in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Petersburg Virginia. Damage to garden wall
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A stereograph pair of a damaged garden wall in Petersburg, Virginia, dated April 1865, shows the war's effects on a private residence rather than on the battlefield. Petersburg had endured a siege of roughly nine months before Confederate forces withdrew in early April 1865, and the city was left battered by artillery and months of fighting. The image was made with the wet collodion process on glass, and the two plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gave the scene a three-dimensional look. Photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, documented the city in the weeks after its fall.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Damaged garden wall Petersburg Va. April 1865. Miller vol. 9 p. 308. 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 × 5,032 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50520 |
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