The Citadel and the Southern Military Academy, Charleston, S.C., the remains of the concrete wall built in the time of the Revolution, and 600 pound Blakely Solid Shot in the foreground
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Stereograph showing a view of Marion Square with a piece of an original fortification and a stack of cannon balls in the foreground.
No. 3113.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic History.
Copyright by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. in 1865.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative may be available: LC-B8811-3113.
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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