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Department of arms and trophies, New York Metropolitan Fair
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Photograph shows relics and spoils of every battlefield, as well as objects and memorials of those who fought at the Metropolitan Fair in New York.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864 by J. Gurney & Son, the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the southern district of New York.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.
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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