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Fort Lafayette - An old photo of a boat on a body of water

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Fort Lafayette - An old photo of a boat on a body of water

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Photograph shows Fort Lafayette, off the coast of Brooklyn, New York, which was used as a prison for high value Confederates during the Civil War.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

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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01/01/1861
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fort lafayette
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