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[Charleston, S.C. Flag-raising ceremony, with Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson and Henry Ward Beecher present]

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[Charleston, S.C. Flag-raising ceremony, with Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson and Henry Ward Beecher present]

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Stereograph showing a crowd gathered at Fort Sumter to celebrate the raising of the American flag by General Anderson four years after it had been hauled down by the Confederates.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History. 1861-1865
No. 6140.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (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.

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01/01/1862
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