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In the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Civil War Photographs More than 3500 glass plate stereo negatives and about 70 paper stereographs documenting the Civil War have been scanned. [ Retrieve] [More information]
[Charleston, S.C. Flag-raising ceremony, with Brevet Maj. Gen. Robert Anderson and Henry Ward Beecher present]
Raising the old flag over Fort Sumter
1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. | April 14, 1865, (four years from the day the Rebels had compelled Major Anderson to haul down the stars and stripes from the flag-staff at Fort Sumter) Major General Anderson raised the same flag over the ruins of the Fort, now again in possession of the United States. Photographs of the Federal Navy, and…
Contributor:
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Date:1862
Photo, Print, Drawing
A Negro family coming into the Union lines
1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 4 x 7 in. | Photo shows African American men, women, and children seated in front of and inside a mule-drawn covered wagon. Artist Alfred Waud worked up a sketch from this photograph, probably made in his presence by David B. Woodbury on January 1, 1863. The drawing, called "An arrival in Camp--under the Proclamation…
Contributor:
Woodbury, D. B. (David B.)
Date:1863-01-01
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Viewing Stereographs in 3D
The start of the American Civil War in 1861 coincided with a surge in stereo photography--a technique that renders photos in three-dimensional depth. A pair of similar images combines into a single 3-D scene using a special viewer. (Or, you can "freeview" by crossing your eyes!)
Date:1860
Photo, Print, Drawing
Last train out, Atlanta, Ga.
1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen ; 8 x 18 cm. | Stereograph showing groups of refugees standing near and in boxcars at the train depot fleeing the city before Sherman's troups destroyed the railroad.