C. C. Giers Stereo Card-Grand Salon
Long an object of curiosity Belmont Mansion was first captured by a photographer after Nashville fell to the Union army in 1862. That image, offered on a CDV, was sold to soldiers as a souvenir in the newly occupied city. War was hardly the time to haul a cameraman’s equipment into the house, setting up for a series of interior views. Exterior stereo card of the mansion. By the 1870’s such restrictions were no longer in place. C. C. Giers a well-known Nashville photographe
