Richmond Virginia. Burnt district – Antique 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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Step back in time with Richmond Virginia. Burnt district, 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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Richmond Virginia. Burnt district
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The burnt district of Richmond, Virginia, shows the damage from the fires of early April 1865, when the city was evacuated ahead of Union troops and large parts of its commercial core were destroyed. The stereograph was made as a wet collodion glass negative by David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, and it belongs to the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection. Views like this one recorded the ruins of the Confederate capital just after the war ended, when the city's scale of loss became a subject of public interest.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. burnt district. 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 | 5,120 × 2,393 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50790 |
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