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Richmond, Virginia. Panoramic view of burnt district
Richmond, Virginia. Panoramic view of burnt district
Richmond, Virginia. Panoramic view of burnt district
Richmond, Virginia. Panoramic view of burnt district
Richmond, Virginia. Panoramic view of burnt district
Richmond, Virginia. View of burned district
Richmond, Virginia. View of burned district
Richmond, Virginia. View of burned district
Richmond, Virginia. View of burned district
Richmond, Virginia. Panoramic view of burnt district
Summary
Caption from negative sleeve: Panoramic view of Richmond, Va., showing burnt district.
Annotation from negative, image side: 3619.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-3619A) and right (LC-B811-3619B) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4162-G.
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).
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.