Interior of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, St. John and St. Finbar, Broad Street, Charleston, S.C., destroyed by the great fire of 1861
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Stereograph showing ruins of the church on Broad and Legare Streets which was destroyed in the fire of December 1861.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History.
Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative may be available: LC-B811-3098.
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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