![View of Yorktown and fleet, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery, no. 1, in foreground](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTMvdmlldy1vZi15b3JrdG93bi1hbmQtZmxlZXQtZnJvbS1mYXJuaG9sZHMtaWUtZmFyZW5ob2x0cy1ob3VzZS13aXRoLWJhdHRlcnktMjliODQ2LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/30/webp "View of Yorktown and fleet, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery, no. 1, in foreground")
![View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery no. 1 in foreground](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDIvdmlldy1vZi1nbG91Y2VzdGVyLWFuZC15b3JrdG93bi1mcm9tLWZhcm5ob2xkcy1pZS1mYXJlbmhvbHRzLWhvdXNlLXdpdGgtYmF0dGVyeS0xZjg2ZjktNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/30/webp "View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery no. 1 in foreground")
![View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery no. 1 in foreground](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDIvdmlldy1vZi1nbG91Y2VzdGVyLWFuZC15b3JrdG93bi1mcm9tLWZhcm5ob2xkcy1pZS1mYXJlbmhvbHRzLWhvdXNlLXdpdGgtYmF0dGVyeS0yYjE2NjUtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/30/webp "View of Gloucester & Yorktown, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery no. 1 in foreground")
![View of Yorktown and fleet, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery, no. 1, in foreground](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTMvdmlldy1vZi15b3JrdG93bi1hbmQtZmxlZXQtZnJvbS1mYXJuaG9sZHMtaWUtZmFyZW5ob2x0cy1ob3VzZS13aXRoLWJhdHRlcnktNjE1MTRlLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "View of Yorktown and fleet, from Farnhold's [i.e. Farenholt's] house, with Battery, no. 1, in foreground")
Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). View of Yorktown and fleet from Farenholt's house. Battery No. 1 in foreground
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Title from Civil War caption books.
Caption from negative sleeve: View of Yorktown And Fleet, From Farnhold's House with Battery No I, In Foreground May 1862.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (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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