Richmond Va. Ruins of Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge – Vintage Wall Art
(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 Va. Ruins of Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Richmond Va. Ruins of Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge
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The Richmond & Danville Railroad bridge shown here lay in ruins when this stereograph was made in 1865, the year Richmond fell to Union forces in April. The rail line had linked the Confederate capital to Danville, a route that carried troops, supplies and refugees during the final campaign, and its bridges were prime targets as Union armies closed in. Captured by a War Photograph and Exhibition Company camera and printed from a wet collodion glass negative, the view records the wrecked crossing in the aftermath of the fighting, a reminder of how transportation networks were torn apart as the war ended.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0469 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Richmond (Va.)--History--1865. Bridges.United States--Virginia--Richmond. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,550 × 1,368 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46303 |
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