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Battle-field Observatory, East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg
Summary
Stereo copyrighted by W.H. Tipton & Co., Gettysburg, Pa.
No. 717.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Caption card tracings: Pa. G- 1878; Photog. I.; Observatories (Gettysburg, Pa.); United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Battlefields; Geogr.; Shelf.
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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Date
01/01/1878
Source
Library of Congress
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