Richmond Virginia. View of city – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Richmond Virginia. View of city. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Richmond Virginia. View of city
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Richmond, the Confederate capital for most of the war, fell to Union forces in early April 1865, and this stereograph records the city in that same year. It was made as a glass negative using the wet collodion process, which required the photographer to coat and expose each plate before it dried. Its two side-by-side images were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, a parlor device that merged them into a single three-dimensional scene. The photographer, David B. Woodbury, died in 1866. The title comes from the Civil War caption books that later catalogued such views for sale and study.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. 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 × 2,408 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-50910 |
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