Broad Street, Charleston, S.C., looking east, with the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral and St. Michael's Church in the distance, effects of the fire in 1862

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.