Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C., Capitol in distance
Summary
Photograph shows a street view of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on a quiet day.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).
No. 21.
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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Date
01/01/1870
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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