City Point Virginia. Ordnance wharf – Historic Photo 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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Step back in time with City Point Virginia. Ordnance wharf, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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City Point Virginia. Ordnance wharf
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Ordnance Wharf at City Point, Virginia, was one of the busiest landings of the Union war effort, where shells and powder were unloaded and sent on to the armies besieging Petersburg. City Point served as the supply base for Ulysses S. Grant's forces from mid-1864 until the war ended, with its docks busy on the James and Appomattox rivers. The picture survives as a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass, split into left and right plates. Its caption dates it to 1864, while the catalog lists 1865, and the negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, an attribution the record now lists as former.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Ordnance Wharf City Point Va. 1864. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,973 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47766 |
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