Jericho Mills, Virginia. Looking up North Anna river from south bank, canvas pontoon bridge and pontoon train on opposite bank, May 24, 1864
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Photographer name from negative sleeve: T.H. O'Sullivan.
Caption from negative sleeve: Jericho Mills, North Anna, Va., Looking up stream from South Bank. Canvas pontoon bridge and pontoon train on opposite bank. May 24, 1864.
Two plates form left and right halves of a stereograph pair.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (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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