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Southern Military Academy, relic of revolutionary fortification surrounded by 600lb. solid shot, no. 625 / George Stacy.
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Stereograph shows the Southern Military Academy; in the foreground is a very large boulder surrounded by black canisters and canonballs stacked in a pile.
Card number: "No. 625."
Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)
Gottheim collection code: GCW 36.
Handwritten numbers on verso: "C884RN" and "12."
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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