Old "Libby Prison" building, Richmond, Virginia / Rees, Richmond, Virginia
Summary
Stereograph showing a group of people including Maj. Thomas P. Turner, Commandant of "The Libby," soldiers, and a young child, standing in front of tents on the prison grounds. The prison building, with its Confederate flag, is in the background.
19037 U.S. Copyright Office.
Caption continues: From the original photograph, taken August 23, 1863. The negative being destroyed by fire on the memorable morning of the 3rd April, 1865.
Copyright No. 19307, Nov. 14, 1882 stamped on verso.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (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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