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The Union prison camp at "Belle Isle," Richmond, Virginia
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Stereograph showing Maj. Thomas P. Turner, Commandant of the "Libby Prison," dressed in gray, with felt hat on, standing on hill overlooking the Confederate prison encampment on Belle Isle in the James River . Confederate guard tents are near the river in the distance.
19308 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: The original negative of this view destroyed by fire on the 3rd of April 1865.
Attributed to Charles R. Rees based on similar photograph in the collection of the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia.
Copyright Nov. 14, 1882 stamped on verso.
Copyright by James Blair.
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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