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Dutch Gap, Virginia (vicinity). Pontoon boats on wheeled carriages at deserted farm house near Dutch Gap canal

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Photographs of artillery, place and date unknown.

Stereo filed in LOT 4176.

Corresponding print is in LOT 4176.

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0867

Title and date based on information from Milhollen and Mugridge and from adjacent negative showing same location: LC-B811-2556.

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge: Unknown location. Pontoon boats on wheeled carriages.

Two plates form left (LC-B811-2557C) and right (LC-B811-2557B) halves of a stereograph pair; with variant view plate (LC-B811-2557A).

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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history civil war transportation pontoon bridges stereographs wet collodion negatives lot 4176 civil war glass negatives and related prints photo dutch gap pontoon boats farm house ultra high resolution high resolution american civil war stereoscopic views united states history library of congress
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01/01/1864
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Civil War in Stereo

American Civil War Stereoscopic Views, 1861-1865
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united states
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Library of Congress
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https://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Civil war photographs, 1861-1865," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/120_cwar.html

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history civil war transportation pontoon bridges stereographs wet collodion negatives lot 4176 civil war glass negatives and related prints photo dutch gap pontoon boats farm house ultra high resolution high resolution american civil war stereoscopic views united states history library of congress