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Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

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Confederate fortifications, Yorktown, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

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Stereograph showing cannons destroyed by Confederate soldiers before they evacuated "Battery Magrauder (i.e. Magruder)", named for Confederate General J. B. Magruder.
No. 458.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.

Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-458.

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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Contributors

Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer
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Location

Yorktown (Va.)37.23889, -76.50972
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Library of Congress
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