View from the parapet of Fort Moultrie, Charleston Harbor (i.e. Sullivan's Island), S.C., looking N.E.
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Stereograph showing a cannon inside the battery of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina.
No. 3123, part of series: War Views.
Printed on card: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 (i.e. 501) Broadway, New York.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-3123.
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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