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View of Butler's Dutch Gap Canal.

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Civil War stereoscopic card.

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of more than six decades, Robert N. Dennis (1900-1983).

Stereographs consist of two nearly identical photographs or photomechanical prints, paired to produce the illusion of a single three-dimensional image, usually when viewed through a stereoscope. Stereographs were produced from the 1850s to the 1940s, with the bulk between 1870 and 1920.

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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history civil war 1861 1865 butler s dutch gap canal browne william frank photographer philp solomons publisher stereoscopic views view butler dutch gap canal dutch gap canal civil war robert dennis collection of stereoscopic views 19th century ultra high resolution high resolution american civil war new york public library
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1862 - 1865
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Civil War in Stereo

American Civil War Stereoscopic Views, 1861-1865
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New York Public Library
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https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

label_outline Explore Browne William Frank Photographer, Philp Solomons Publisher, Dutch Gap Canal

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history civil war 1861 1865 butler s dutch gap canal browne william frank photographer philp solomons publisher stereoscopic views view butler dutch gap canal dutch gap canal civil war robert dennis collection of stereoscopic views 19th century ultra high resolution high resolution american civil war new york public library