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Group of relics in Charleston arsenal yard
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Stereograph shows a cannon and other ammunition in the shade of a tree, Charleston, South Carolina.
Gottheim collection code: GCW 29.
Card number: "No. 632."
Tax stamp on back: "Lowell & Senter, Portland, Me." canceled September 28, 1865.
Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress).
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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