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The Grand Review. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

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The Grand Review. Washington DC sterescope card, 19th century.

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Stereograph showing soldiers on horses in front of the Presidential viewing stand during the grand review of the great veteran armies of Grant and Sherman in Washington D.C. on May 23-24, 1865.

Handwritten on verso: Miller, vol. IX, p. 259.
Attributed to Mathew B. Brady, based on LC-B815-1253.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B815-1253.

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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Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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