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Richmond, Virginia. St. Paul's Episcopal church. (Grace Street)

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Richmond, Virginia. St. Paul's Episcopal church. (Grace Street)

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Stereo filed in LOT 4162.
Title from Civil War caption books.
Caption from negative sleeve: Richmond, Va., Saint Paul's Church.
Photographer: John Reekie.
File print in LOT 4162-C.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Forms part of the negative collection produced and published by Alexander Gardner's Gallery.

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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01/01/1865
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united states
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Civil war photographs, 1861-1865," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/120_cwar.html

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