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Crew of the original "Monitor" on her deck,

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Photograph shows the seamen, or "Jack Tars," at leisure on the deck of the U.S.S. Monitor.

Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

From series: The War for the Union; Photographic War History, 1861-1865.

Negative no. 490.

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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01/01/1862
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Civil War in Stereo

American Civil War Stereoscopic Views, 1861-1865
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Virginia
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Library of Congress
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history civil war virginia photographic prints stereographs wwwloc gov pictures search q lot 14110 stereograph cards james f gibson photo ultra high resolution high resolution us navy ships uss navy stereoscopic views united states history library of congress group of people