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[Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.] – Historic Print

[Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.], [1865 April 13] — historic drawing
[Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.], [1865 April 13]. Historic drawing from the Richmond collection.

(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: [Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.], preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Ruins of the water wheel in Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond, Va.]

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The drawing shows the ruined water wheel of the Gallego Flour Mills in Richmond, Virginia, and its record is dated April 13, 1865, nine days after the Confederate capital fell. Richmond's mills and warehouses were among the many structures damaged in the fires that swept the city as Confederate forces withdrew and Union troops entered in early April. The artist worked in pencil and white pigment on olive-toned paper, a choice that gives the scene a muted, sober cast. The catalog also lists women among the subjects, a reminder that civilians lived with the wreckage as well as the soldiers.

Created / published[1865 April 13]
Medium1 drawing on olive paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 22.3 x 18.7 cm. (sheet).
GenreDrawings American 1860-1870.
SubjectsMills--1860-1870. Waterwheels--1860-1870. Women--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage.United States--Virginia--Richmond
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,288 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112743

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