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Main Street - Looking West Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania, destroyed by the rebels under McCausland, July 30th, 1864

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Main Street - Looking West Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania, destroyed by the rebels under McCausland, July 30th, 1864

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Stereograph showing a group of men standing in a street burned by the Confederate calvary troops of General John McCausland.
No. 504.

Handwritten on verso: Filed Aug. 6, 1864 by Charles E. Meyer, prop.
Handwritten on card: No. 504.
Copyright 1864 by Charles E. Meyer.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Duplicate of LC-B8184-10529. No negative of this image is available.

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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01/01/1864
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Chambersburg (Pa.)39.93750, -77.66111
Google Map of 39.9375, -77.66111111111111
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