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377 Arms and trophies, Metropolitan Fair, N.Y., 1864

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377 Arms and trophies, Metropolitan Fair, N.Y., 1864

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Photograph shows relics and spoils of every battlefield, as well as objects and memorials of those who fought at the Metropolitan Fair in New York in 1864.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

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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01/01/1864
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Bierstadt Brothers, photographers.
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