Richmond, Va. View of the burned district and the Capitol across the Canal Basin
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- Source:
- Library of Congress
- Collection:
- Civil War
- Date:
- 1865.
- Region:
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Richmond, Virginia
(inherited from collection) - Description:
- 1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. | Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Subjects: stereographs, united states, transportation, wet collodion negatives, civil war, richmond (va.), history, virginia, richmond, canals Locations: virginia, richmond, united states Notes: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0478 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3245B) and right (LC-B811-3245A) halves of a stereograph pair. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.cwp Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress). Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.
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- By:
- jacobwhall
- Date:
- Sep 16, 2025
- Total:
- 1 submission
- Confidence:
- Low
- Validations:
- 0
- Notes:
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Title says this was taken across the canal basin from the Capitol. I based my georeference off the 1905 Sanborn, which is probably very different than how it was in 1865.
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Sep 16, 2025 8:59 PM
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Title says this was taken across the canal basin from the Capitol. I based my georeference off the 1905 Sanborn, which is probably very different than how it was in 1865.