Richmond Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district – 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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A window into the past: Richmond Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Richmond Virginia. Ruined buildings in the burnt district
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Ruined brick walls and gutted shells rise above the streets of Richmond in this 1865 view, the aftermath of the fire that swept the business district in early April as Confederate authorities abandoned the capital and Union troops moved in. David B. Woodbury, who worked in Richmond that year, recorded the scene on wet collodion glass plates. The two halves of this stereograph pair were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, so the rubble appears to stand in three dimensions. Such views were widely sold to Northern audiences who wanted to see the former Confederate capital for themselves.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | 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 | 5,118 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50850 |
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