Seabrook Point, Port Royal Island, South Carolina. Mock battery erected by the 79th New York Volunteers on Coosaw River
Summary
Stereo filed in LOT 4172.
Photographer name from negative sleeve: T.H. O'Sullivan.
Caption from negative sleeve: Mock Battery erected by the 79th N.Y.V. at Seabrook Point, Coosaw River, Port Royal Island, S.C. Dec. 1861.
Four plates are variant views: (LC-B811-161A), (LC-B811-161B), (LC-B811-161C), and (LC-B811-161D) of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4205.
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).
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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