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Monument at Richmond erected to Confederate soldiers by the ladies of that place
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Photograph shows the monument dedicated in Nov. of 1869 to Confederate war dead made of granite from the James River. The 90 foot monument is located in Hollywood Cemetery, and was built by the women of the Ladies Memorial Association in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
Part of series: Stereoscopic views of Virginia.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.
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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