[CIVIL WAR]. 15 stereoviews ft. ruins, important buildings & locales during and just after the war.

15 stereoviews published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., New York, each bearing publisher's imprint along upper edge and series title "Photographic History / The War for the Union" to right and left of mount recto; and printed series labels affixed to versos including image numbers and titles. Titles include: The Custom House, Bank Street, Richmond, Va. -- View in the Burnt District, near Main St., Richmond, Va. -- Gen. Butler's Staff Officers' Quarters, on Fraser's Farm. -- Panoramic View of Richmond, Va., from Libby Hill, looking west... -- Panoramic View of Richmond, Va., from Gamble Hill, looking east... -- View of the Court House, from Sycamore Street, Petersburgh, Va. -- The Army of the Potomac. Looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treasury Buildings... -- Ruins in the burnt district, cor. Cary and Governeur Sts., looking towards Main St. Richmond, Va. -- Tobacco Warehouses on High St. Petersburgh, Va., used by the Rebels as temporary Prisons... -- View from the Petersburgh railroad Depot, Richmond, Va., looking south-west... -- Tomb of Ex-President Polk, Nashville, Tenn. Neice of deceased sitting on the tomb. -- Strawbury Plains Bridge, destroyed four times during the war... -- Broad St., Charleston, S. C., looking East, with the ruins of the Roman Catholic Cathedral and St. Michael's church in the distance. -- Meeting St., Charleston, S. C., looking south, showing the ruins of Circular church and the Mills House, St. Michael's church in the distance. -- St. Mary's Convent, St. Augustine, Fla. -- Together, 15 views.

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American Historical Ephemera and Photography

[CIVIL WAR]. 15 stereoviews ft. ruins, important buildings & locales during and just after the war.

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