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Richmond Virginia. Looking up Main Street – Historic Photo Reproduction

Richmond Virginia. Looking up Main Street, 1865 — historic photograph
Richmond Virginia. Looking up Main Street, 1865. Historic photograph from the Richmond 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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Looking up Main Street, this 1865 view shows one of Richmond's central commercial thoroughfares in the months after Union forces took the former Confederate capital. David B. Woodbury made the image using the wet collodion process, which required coating and developing glass plates on the spot, so each negative was produced under demanding field conditions. Made as a stereograph, the picture was meant to be seen as a pair through a stereoscope, a popular parlor device that brought scenes of war-damaged cities into middle-class homes. Woodbury died in 1866, which gives the negative added weight as a record of the city in its immediate aftermath.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesTitle from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va View looking up Main St. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan5,120 × 2,371 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-50833

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