Yorktown, Virginia Federal artillery park. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.
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Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0041
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-2358B) and right (LC-B811-2358A) halves of a stereograph pair.
Vintage print from this negative is filed in PR 13 CN 1974:175.
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.
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