On April 16, 2011, Divided Voices: Maryland in the Civil War Part 1: The Romantic War, opened at the Maryland Historical Society in downtown Balimore. It’s part of what the society says is Maryland’s “largest and most comprehensive exhibit.”

This continuous loop program runs five minutes, 40 seconds and features 17 images with captions from the spring 1861 scenes taken and produced by the E. and H.T. Anthony & Co. around Camp Essex, a Union stronghold just south of Baltimore overlooking Relay House, Thomas Viaduct and a highly important Baltimore & Ohio Railroad junction.

This is the first CCWP show to depend solely on original period stereoviews, since none of the negatives appear to still exist. The original stereo views came from the private collections of top Maryland collectors Arthur G. Barrett and Ross J. Kelbaugh. To showcase this rare series, Kelbaugh drew up the outline and selected the images for the show, wrote the captions, and even took a modern stereo of the Thomas Viaduct.

"This made a nice transition into the 1861 view of the viaduct with troops guarding it," Richter said.

The Thomas Viaduct, still in use today, is the world's oldest multiple-arched stone railroad bridge. The Maryland Historical Society plans to commission another show to commemorate 1862 Maryland Civil War history that will, of course, focus on Antietam.

The 3-D program at MHS is part of a new exhibit that also features three other monitors running 2-D content.

For more information please visit the Maryland Historical Society website at: http://www.mdhs.org/museum/exhibitions