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Vulcan Iron Works, no. 633 / George Stacy.
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Stereograph shows the Vulcan Iron Works, Cumberland Street, Charleston, South Carolina. Image includes five men standing on the iron balcony. Carriages and carriage parts line both sides of the street. Sign in front of building reads: "Archr. McLeish Vulcan Iron Works".
Card number: "No. 633."
Forms part of the Larry Gottheim Collection of stereographs and other early photographs (Library of Congress)
Gottheim collection code: GCW 35.
Handwritten number on verso: 687G17.
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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