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Destruction of a railroad bridge / The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, Hartford, Conn. – Historic Photograph Print

Destruction of a railroad bridge / The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, Hartford, Conn., Hartford, Connecticut : The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, [photographed May 25, 1864, printed later] — historic photograph
Destruction of a railroad bridge / The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, Hartford, Conn., Hartford, Connecticut : The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, [photographed May 25, 1864, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Hartford collection.

(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 Destruction of a railroad bridge / The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, Hartford, Conn. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A railroad bridge lies in ruins, its span broken and fallen, in this stereograph from the Civil War Photograph Collection. Its record dates the exposure to May 25, 1864, a period when both Union and Confederate forces routinely wrecked rail lines and bridges to slow enemy movements and supplies. The card was printed later by The War Photograph & Exhibition Company of Hartford, Connecticut, which sold views like this one as paired images for stereoscopic viewers. Because the print was made decades after the war, it reflects how the conflict was remembered and marketed as much as how it looked when the bridge was destroyed.

Created / publishedHartford, Connecticut : The War Photograph & Exhibition Company, [photographed May 25, 1864, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1880-1910.Photographic prints 1880-1910.
NotesOriginal neg. Civil War Photograph Collection.
SubjectsBridges--War damage--United States. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage. Railroad bridges--1860-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,462 × 1,167 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-215946

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