Richmond Virginia. View of the city from Gambles Hill – 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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Richmond Virginia. View of the city from Gambles Hill. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Order it framed and ready to hang, or unframed to match a frame you already love. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Richmond Virginia. View of the city from Gambles Hill
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
From Gambles Hill, a rise overlooking the city and the James River, the photographer captured downtown Richmond in April 1865, just as the Confederate capital fell and Union troops occupied the city. David B. Woodbury made the image as a stereograph, two side-by-side exposures meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect that let period viewers feel they were standing above the scene. Woodbury died in 1866, and his Richmond views remain valued as documents of the city in the weeks after the war's end in Virginia.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond Va. April 1865 View of city from Gamblers Hill. 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 | 5,096 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50917 |
More from the Richmond collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
![[Libby Hill Park, Richmond, Virginia]](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e9/e95c4171c087-400.webp)
