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Group, Major Robertson and friends - 19th century Virginia.
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Stereograph showing Captain James M. Robertson (third from left) and officers near Fair Oaks, Virginia.
Stereoviews of group portrait of Union soldiers.
Photograph taken for Gardner's Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Gardner's 1863 copyright line bottom recto.
Part of the series, Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 440.
Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:156).
Forms part of: Civil War stereo LOTS (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B815-440.
Vender : Jeffrey Kraus.
Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and worked as a photographer in Mathew Brady's studio. Gardner was sent to document the American Civil War and produced some of the most iconic images of the conflict, including photographs of the battlefields at Antietam and Gettysburg. After the war, Gardner photographed President Lincoln and the American West, including images of Native Americans, settlers, and the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
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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