North Anna River Va. Destroyed bridge of the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad – Historic Reproduction
(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: North Anna River Va. Destroyed bridge of the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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North Anna River Va. Destroyed bridge of the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad
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Wrecked spans of the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad over the North Anna River in Virginia are the focus here, captured on two glass plates that form a stereograph pair for viewing through a stereoscope. The railroad linked Richmond with Fredericksburg, and during the Overland Campaign of 1864 both armies relied on such lines for supplies and troop movements, which made bridges like this one frequent targets for destruction. The wet collodion process required photographers to coat and expose their plates on site, so the image preserves a direct record of the damage left behind after the fighting along the river that spring.
| Created / published | 1864 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0307 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Wilderness Battle of the Va. 1864. Bridges. Railroads.United States--Virginia--North Anna River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,546 × 1,370 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46289 |
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