Chapins Bluff Virginia (vicinity). Fort Burnham formerly Confederate Fort Harrison – Historic Photograph 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: Chapins Bluff Virginia (vicinity). Fort Burnham formerly Confederate Fort Harrison, 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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Chapins Bluff Virginia (vicinity). Fort Burnham formerly Confederate Fort Harrison
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This stereograph shows Fort Burnham, the earthwork known before the fall of 1864 as Fort Harrison, on the bluffs above the James River near Richmond. Confederate forces built it as part of the defenses protecting the capital, and Union troops captured it in late September 1864. The Union renamed it for Brig. Gen. Hiram Burnham, who was killed in the fighting. The image is made of two wet collodion glass plates, one for each eye, so a stereoscope could turn the pair into a single view with depth. Earlier catalogers credited the pictures to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer settled.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Ft. Burnham formerly Confederate Fort Harrison near James River. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,060 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47577 |
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