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Ruins of Cathedral St. John and St. Finbar, no. 627 / George Stacy.
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Stereograph shows the interior of the burned out ruins of a Roman Catholic Cathedral, Charleston, South Carolina.
Card number: "No. 627."
Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)
Gottheim collection code: GCW 39.
Handwritten number on verso: 1191B.1.
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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