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The Great Metropolitan Sanitary Fair Marine Department, 15th Street. Models of boats, steamers, and sailing craft.

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The Great Metropolitan Sanitary Fair Marine Department, 15th Street. Models of boats, steamers, and sailing craft.

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Stereograph shows exhibit of boats at the Great Metropolitan Sanitary Fair, New York, New York.

No. 1695.
Purchase; Russell Norton; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012: 069).

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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01/01/1864
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E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm), publisher
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