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Waiting for a load of exchanged prisoners at Aiken's Landing, James River, March, 1865
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Stereograph showing steamer New York at dock waiting for exchange of prisoners at Aiken's Landing, on the James River in Virginia.
No. 6619.
Copyright in 1904 by John C. Taylor, Hartford, Conn.
Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Original negative is: LC-B811-2619.
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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