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 (LOC)

    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

    [New York : E. & H.T. Anthony], c1865.

    1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 3.25 x 7.25 in.

    Notes:
     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, www.civilwar.org/education/history/warfare-and-logistics/...)

    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.

    Subjects:
     Buildings--Virginia--Richmond--1860-1870.
    War damage--Virginia--Richmond--1860-1870.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage--Union--Virginia--Richmond.

    Format: Stereographs--1860-1870.
    Albumen prints--1860-1870.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18951

    Call Number: LOT 4162, no. 207

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