![Potter's House [i.e., Ponder House], on the lines N.W. of the city, showing the effect of shots, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1864](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjkvcG90dGVycy1ob3VzZS1pZS1wb25kZXItaG91c2Utb24tdGhlLWxpbmVzLW53LW9mLXRoZS1jaXR5LXNob3dpbmctdGhlLWVmZmVjdC0xYmE5ODctMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/320/167/jpg "Potter's House [i.e., Ponder House], on the lines N.W. of the city, showing the effect of shots, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1864")
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![Potter's House [i.e., Ponder House], on the lines N.W. of the city, showing the effect of shots, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1864](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjkvcG90dGVycy1ob3VzZS1pZS1wb25kZXItaG91c2Utb24tdGhlLWxpbmVzLW53LW9mLXRoZS1jaXR5LXNob3dpbmctdGhlLWVmZmVjdC1hMmUxYjEtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/77/webp "Potter's House [i.e., Ponder House], on the lines N.W. of the city, showing the effect of shots, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1864")
Potter's House [i.e., Ponder House], on the lines N.W. of the city, showing the effect of shots, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1864
Summary
Photograph shows damage done by Union shelling of the Ponder House at the end of Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, with Confederate breaskworks in the backyard. Misidentified in old captions as "Potter House." (Source: Civil War in Depth, by Bob Zeller, 1997, p. 8)
Original neg. for this print: LC-B811-2717.
Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe.
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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