Savannah Georgia. Meldrim house General Shermans headquarters – 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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Savannah Georgia. Meldrim house General Shermans headquarters comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Savannah Georgia. Meldrim house General Shermans headquarters
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The Meldrim House stands out among Savannah views because it served as General William T. Sherman's headquarters after Union forces entered the city in December 1864, at the end of his march from Atlanta to the coast. Sherman sent President Lincoln a telegram from the city offering it as a Christmas present, and he stayed there through that winter. This 1865 image is a stereograph pair made from two glass negatives using the wet collodion process. The photographer is attributed to David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, and pictures like this one documented occupied Southern cities in the months after the war.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: House occupied by Gen. Sherman as Hdq. Savannah Ga. Photographers name attributed in Civil War caption books. 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 | 4,792 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52782 |
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