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Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing-Siege train awaiting shipment-U.S. guns on left, Confederate captured ordnance on right

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Stereograph showing rows of cannons and carts on a field in Broadway Landing, Virginia with soldiers in the foreground.

No. 1074.

Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Original negative may be available: LC-B811-0001.

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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confiscations military depots union soldiers artillery weaponry history civil war military personnel military facilities equipment and supplies petersburg va siege albumen prints stereographs ordnance depot ordnance depot broadway landing siege train broadway landing siege train shipment u guns confederate retro vr 1864 artillery gun stereoscopic views 19th century american civil war confederate states of america lot 14044 stereograph cards william frank browne photo print ultra high resolution high resolution united states history library of congress
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01/01/1864
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Browne, William Frank, photographer
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Civil War in Stereo

American Civil War Stereoscopic Views, 1861-1865
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Library of Congress
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confiscations military depots union soldiers artillery weaponry history civil war military personnel military facilities equipment and supplies petersburg va siege albumen prints stereographs ordnance depot ordnance depot broadway landing siege train broadway landing siege train shipment u guns confederate retro vr 1864 artillery gun stereoscopic views 19th century american civil war confederate states of america lot 14044 stereograph cards william frank browne photo print ultra high resolution high resolution united states history library of congress