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Summary
Card number: "626."
Publisher attribution based on provenance.
Gottheim collection code: GCW 31.
Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)
Purchase; Larry Gottheim; 2008; (DLC/PP-2008:007)
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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Date
01/01/1865
Location
charleston
Source
Library of Congress
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