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Fort Sumner on the Chickahominy, Va. / Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.
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Stereograph shows Union soldiers getting into position behind their weapons ready for an attack while infantry men line up in the distance by the Chickahominy River, near Fair Oaks, Virginia in June, 1862.
Corresponding glass negatives: LC-B811-2510A, left, and LC-B811-2510B, right. E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. acquired the negatives 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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