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[Group portrait of a Union general with his staff gathered around him]

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[Group portrait of a Union general with his staff gathered around him]

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Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
Title devised by library staff.
Inscribed on item: Gen. [...] & staff.
Attributed to photographer Sam Cooley by collector.
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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01/01/1863
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Cooley, Sam A. (Samuel A.), photographer
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