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Dr. Richard Burr, embalming surgeon, Army of the James
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Stereograph shows surgeon pumping fluid into dead soldier's body.
Date based on the publisher's move to 591 Broadway on February 10, 1869 (Source: Dietrich, Henry. Reminiscences of the house of E. & H.T. Anthony & Company. Anthony's photographic bulletin, 1900, volume 31, pages 104-106)
Notation on recto: "Embalming the dead."
Similar glass negative: LC-B811-2531. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negative from the studio of Mathew Brady in exchange for photographic supplies.
Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).
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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