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Hampton Place, residence of Lt. General Winfield Scott, Elizabethtown, N.J.

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Hampton Place, residence of Lt. General Winfield Scott, Elizabethtown, N.J.

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Photograph shows an exterior view of Hampton Place in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the residence of soldier and statesman Winfield Scott and his wife Maria Mayo.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

Printed on item: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 in the clerk's office of the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania by McAllister & brother, 723 Chestnut Stree, Phila.
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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01/01/1860
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McAllister & Brother, photographers
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Elizabeth (N.J.)40.66389, -74.21083
Google Map of 40.663888888888884, -74.21083333333334
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