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Ruins of the northeastern railway depot, Charleston

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Ruins of the northeastern railway depot, Charleston

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Photograph shows three men standing at the ruins of Charleston's Northeastern railway station
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

From series: "War Views, no. 179."
Photographer attribution and date based on variant images of the same scene in Prints & Photographs collections.
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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01/01/1865
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Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer
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Location

North Charleston32.88856, -80.00751
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Library of Congress
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