City Point, Virginia Brig. General John A. Rawlins, Chief of Staff, with wife and child at door of their quarters
Summary
Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0358
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-3400A) and right (LC-B811-3400B) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4191
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.
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.