Similar
![[Grand River, Colorado]. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn25/L3Bob3RvLzE4NzAvMDEvMDEvZ3JhbmQtcml2ZXItY29sb3JhZG8tM2FkMDM1LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/23/webp "[Grand River, Colorado]. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain photograph.")
Related
Ditch and "Cheavaux de Frise" in front of the Union Fort Sedgwick, called by the rebel soldiers "Fort Hell"
Summary
Stereograph showing a water-filled ditch and chevaux-de-frise among the fortifications in front of Fort Sedgwick, Petersburg, Virginia.
No. 3215, part of series: War Views.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History.
Caption continues: This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh, Va., April 2d, 1865.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-3215.
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.
Tags
Date
Location
Source
Copyright info
