City Point Virginia. View of transports – 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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Step back in time with City Point Virginia. View of transports, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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City Point Virginia. View of transports
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City Point, Virginia, was one of the busiest Union supply depots of the war, a landing on the James River where the Appomattox joins it. This stereograph records the transports moored there in 1865, when the Union armies were besieging Petersburg nearby. It is made from two glass wet-collodion plates, one for each eye, so that viewed through a stereoscope the vessels appear to stand in three dimensions. The negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a leading photographer of the war, though that attribution has since been questioned.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View of Transports etc. City Point Va. 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 | 5,002 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47780 |
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