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Field Telegraph Station - 19th century Virginia.
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Stereograph showing soldiers outside a tent used as a telegraph station at Wilcox's Landing in the vicinity of Charles City County, Virginia.
No. 2351.
Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-2351.
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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