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Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing-Siege train awaiting shipment-U.S. guns on left, Confederate captured ordnance on right
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Stereograph showing rows of cannons and carts on a field in Broadway Landing, Virginia with soldiers in the foreground.
No. 1074.
Part of series: View of Confederate Water Batteries on James River.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative may be available: LC-B811-0001.
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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