Richmond Virginia. Ruins of State Arsenal – Antique 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 rare historic photograph captures Richmond Virginia. Ruins of State Arsenal in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Virginia. Ruins of State Arsenal
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The ruins of the State Arsenal in Richmond, Virginia, are the focus of this 1865 view, taken in the weeks after Union forces occupied the Confederate capital in early April. As Confederate authorities abandoned the city, fires and explosions destroyed large areas of its military and industrial property. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, made the image on a wet collodion glass negative, a common method of the period. Pictures like this one offered viewers far from Virginia a direct look at the wreckage of the war's most symbolic city.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. Ruins of State Arsenal. 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 × 2,401 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50880 |
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