Live Auction 2279The Miller-Plummer Collection of Photographs
Christie’s roundel
Lot 520 No pen is required to tell of the ruin and desolation reigning there. The fiery destruction which visited it in April last, left little but ruins in the principal portions of the city to tell the tale of war and woe. (Philadelphia Photographer, vol. II, October 1865)

PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN

Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil War, c. 1865

Closed8 October 2009

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PHOTOGRAPHER UNKNOWN
Richmond, Virginia, after the Civil War, c. 1865
14 albumen prints
the majority titled in pencil (on the mount)
varying sizes from 6 7/8 x 8 7/8in. (17.5 x 22.5cm.) to 3 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (9.3 x 12.5cm.)

With Ken Apollo, Rhinebeck, New York, 1980s

Specialist note

Some of these photographs were later published by the publishers of stereoviews, Selden and Ennis.