Petersburg Virginia. Confederate breastworks in front of Petersburg – Vintage 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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This historic photograph of Petersburg Virginia. Confederate breastworks in front of Petersburg brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Petersburg Virginia. Confederate breastworks in front of Petersburg
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Earth-and-timber breastworks built by Confederate troops stretch across the foreground of this stereograph pair, and the two glass plates record the scene from slightly different angles so it could be viewed in three dimensions through a stereoscope. Petersburg was a rail hub south of Richmond that withstood a Union siege from June 1864 until Confederate lines broke in early April 1865, which made its fortifications among the most visible reminders of the campaign. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, made the pictures in 1865 using the wet collodion process, and he died the following year.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Petersburg Va. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. 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 × 5,100 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50515 |
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