Hi - You might be interested in this new American Memory project -- there
are some very interesting stereographs relating to Virginia.

Elizabeth


 "Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society" is the latest
 addition to the Library's American Memory Web site at
 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html. The
 online presentation contains materials drawn from 12 collections housed
 at the New-York Historical Society. The "Civil War Treasures" online
 collection is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress and the
 New-York Historical Society.

 Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society houses one of the
 oldest research libraries and museums in the United States. Collections
 documenting the Civil War are a particular strength of the society.

 Pictorial items in the digitized Civil War collection include 731
 stereographs, more than 70 photographs from an album, 178 sketches from
 three different collections, 304 posters, 29 etchings of caricatures and
 nearly 500 envelopes with printed or embossed decoration related to
 Civil War events and personalities. Items from manuscript collections
 include the first and only issue of The Prison Times handwritten by
 Confederate prisoners held at Fort Delaware; 32 letters by Sarah Blunt,
 a nurse in military hospitals at Point Lookout, Md., and Harper's Ferry,
 West Virginia; and three letters by Walt Whitman. The letters complement
 the Library's Walt Whitman "Poet at Work" online collection.

 The digitization of "Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical
 Society" was made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W.
 Mellon Foundation.

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