View from the Petersburgh [i.e. Petersburg] railroad Depot, Richmond, Va., looking south-west, showing a portion of the burnt district, and Gamble Hill in the distance
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- Source:
- Library of Congress
- Collection:
- Civil War
- Date:
- c1865.
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Richmond, Virginia
(inherited from collection) - Description:
- 1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 3.25 x 7.25 in. | Photo shows buildings damaged by fires that began to burn out of control after the Confederate government and troops left Richmond, Va., at the end of the Civil War. Union troops helped put the fires out when they arrived on April 3, 1865. (Source: Civil War Trust, "Fall of Richmond," 2011, http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/warfare-and-logistics/warfare/richmond.html) Subjects: union, destruction & pillage, history, buildings, war damage, civil war, stereographs, richmond, albumen prints, united states, virginia Locations: united states, richmond, virginia Notes: Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History. Title from item. Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "The Universal Archive : The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia" at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), 2008-2009.
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