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U.S. Monitor MI-AN-TI-NO-MAH / photographed and published by Bell & Bro.

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U.S. Monitor MI-AN-TI-NO-MAH / photographed and published by Bell & Bro.

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Photograph shows the monitor, USS Miantonomoh, part of the North Atlantic Squadron, at Washington Navy Yard.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

Date based on years that the monitor was docked in Washington, D.C.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.

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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Contributors

Bell & Bro. (Washington, D.C.), photographers
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90719, -77.03687
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