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A crippled locomotive in Richmond - 19th century Virginia.

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A crippled locomotive in Richmond - 19th century Virginia.

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Stereograph showing Union soldiers and a civilian standing on and near a locomotive at the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Depot which was destroyed by Confederate troops as they fled the city. Over 700 buildings in Richmond were destroyed including the one behind the locomotive.
No. 6258.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-3258.

Pre-1900 locomotives photographs and art.

"The first effect of looking at a good photograph through the stereoscope is a surprise such as no painting ever produced. The mind feels its way into the very depths of the picture. The scraggy branches of a tree in the foreground run out at us as if they would scratch our eyes out. The elbow of a figure stands forth as to make us almost uncomfortable." Oliver Wendell Holmes, an affordable stereo viewer inventor for the American market. Atlantic Monthly, June 1859.

During the Civil War, photographers produced thousands of stereoviews. Stereographs were popular during American Civil War. A single glass plate negative capture both images using a Stereo camera. Prints from these negatives were intended to be looked at with a special viewer called a stereoscope, which created a three-dimensional ("3-D") image. This collection includes glass stereograph negatives, as well as stereograph card prints.

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01/01/1865
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Richmond (Va.)37.55389, -77.46028
Google Map of 37.553888888888885, -77.46027777777778
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