Washington Monument and fountain - 19th century Virginia.

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Washington Monument and fountain - 19th century Virginia.

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Photograph shows a group standing around a frozen fountain in Capitol Square, near the Washington Monument in Richmond, Virginia.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

From series: Views of Richmond and Vicinity, and mountain scenery of Virginia and West Va.
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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01/01/1860
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Richmond (Va.)
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Library of Congress
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