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The great Union meeting in Union Square, New York, April 20, 1861
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Stereograph showing a crowd of approximately 200,000 people gathered in Union Square to rally and hear speeches in support of the union.
No. 3, in series: Anthony's Instantaneous Views.
Caption continues: The dense mass gathered around of the Speaker's stands, over which gracefully floats the Stars and Stripes.
Gift; Bill Frassanito, 1962.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
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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