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HISTORY: UNITED STATES: CIVIL WAR :
LIBRARIES: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
An Important Library of Congress Acquisition Helps People
See the US Civil War in 3D
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An Important Library of Congress Acquisition Helps People
See the US Civil War in 3D
by Laura C. Mallonee
May 25, 2015
Hyperallergic
http://hyperallergic.com/209155/an-important-library-of-
congress-acquisition-helps-people-see-the-us-civil-war-in-3d/
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In the late 1850s, the Massachusetts writer Oliver Wendell Holmes invented
the hand-held stereoscope, a contraption that allowed two slightly
different images to be viewed together three-dimensionally. The device
revolutionized the world of photography, as any middle-class family could
purchase one for about $10 in todays money. Photographers soon began
trekking out to exotic locales like Niagara Falls to shoot stereoscopic
images, which were printed on cards and sold commercially in shops by the
hundreds. And predictably, Americans went crazy over them.
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This is a world lit by fire. There was no electricity, and everybody rode
by horseback, but you could take pictures, Bob Zeller, president of the
Center for Civil War Photography, said recently in conversation with
Hyperallergic about the Library of Congresss acquisition of stereoscopic
images of the war. In the early 1860s, demand for battlefield scenes
exploded, and big-name photographers like Alexander Gardner a protof
Matthew Brady made a lot of money supplying it. There were even
stereoscope stores on Broadway, Zeller said. I call them the Blockbuster
videos of Civil War America.
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The majority of the negatives produced by large stereo print companies
still exist in impressively good condition, and theyve long been held by
the library and the National Archives. But theres a less common breed of
stereoscopic images that enthusiasts tend to drool over: the ones made by
small town producers, for which very few prints were made, and for which
the negatives no longer exist.
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Remarkably enough, the Library of Congress has acquired 540 of them. They
were purchased from Robin G. Stanford, an 87-year-old grandmother from
Houston, Texas, whos spent the past four decades doggedly collecting them.
Stanford told The Washington Post her hobby began in the 1970s, when she
was looking for unique ways to decorate her farmhouse. And you know how it
is with collecting, she said. You put your toe in the water, and next
thing you know, youre paddling like crazy. She hadnt planned to sell the
images, but her son died unexpectedly and she needed money to help out her
daughter-in-law and grandchildren. I would not have sold any of it if it
hadnt been for that, she explained.
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