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Eight inch Brooke rifled gun, weighing 21,987 lbs., in unfinished battery wood-hurdle revertment (i.e. revetment), anchored by grape vines
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Stereograph showing a soldier standing next to a mounted cannon on the James River above Dutch Gap Canal.
No. 1018.
Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative may be available: LC-B815-29.
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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