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A battery of "Quaker Guns" - A couple of pictures of a man on a horse drawn carriage
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Stereograph showing two soldiers standing behind carts mounted with logs, or imitation cannons, as part of a mock battery erected by the 79th New York Volunteers on Coosaw River at Seabrook Point, Port Royal Island, South Carolina.
No. 161.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.
Attributed to Timothy H. O'Sullivan, based on LC-B811-161.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-161.
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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