Wounded trees at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

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Wounded trees at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope card.

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Stereograph showing a man lying on the ground surrounded by trees battered by bullets and shells near Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
No. 2391.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-2391.

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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01/01/1863
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Gettysburg (Pa.)39.83083, -77.23111
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Library of Congress
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