![View from the Petersburgh [i.e. Petersburg] railroad Depot, Richmond, Virginia, looking south-west, showing a portion of the burnt district, and Gamble Hill in the distance](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjEvdmlldy1mcm9tLXRoZS1wZXRlcnNidXJnaC1pZS1wZXRlcnNidXJnLXJhaWxyb2FkLWRlcG90LXJpY2htb25kLXZhLWxvb2tpbmctYTM5MjQyLTEwMjQuanBn/320/151/jpg "View from the Petersburgh [i.e. Petersburg] railroad Depot, Richmond, Virginia, looking south-west, showing a portion of the burnt district, and Gamble Hill in the distance")
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View from the Petersburgh [i.e. Petersburg] railroad Depot, Richmond, Virginia, looking south-west, showing a portion of the burnt district, and Gamble Hill in the distance
Summary
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)
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History.
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.
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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