P&P ONLINE CATALOG - CIVIL WAR PHOTOGRAPHS
StereographsStereographs flourished from the early 1850s through the 1930s. During the Civil War, photographers produced thousands of stereo views ranging from camp scenes to dead soldiers on the battlefield. This online collection includes glass stereograph negatives (original views and copies of other photos), as well as Library-created copy photos of original stereograph cards. Stereo cameras used a single glass plate negative to capture both images. 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. (For information on resources for viewing digitized stereographs in 3-D, see "Viewing Online Stereographs in 3-D," in the "About the Stereographs" section of the online catalog.) Below is a description of the various stereo formats that have been scanned:
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