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Destruction of a railroad bridge - 19th century Virginia.
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Photo shows a smoldering railroad bridge on the North Ana River in Virginia. Confederate troops destroyed the bridge to slow down advancing Union soldiers. (Source: Zeller, p. 73)
Series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History (no. 762).
Civil War Photograph Collection.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: The Civil War in depth / Bob Zeller. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997-2000, v. 1, p. 73.
Original glass neg. number: LC-B811-726.
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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