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[30] pp. Folding plate illustrating the cyclorama; numerous advertisements. 22.8x14.8 cm (9x5¾"), original lithographed pictorial wrappers. Rare catalogue for the San Francisco showing of the cyclorama of the Battle of Vicksburg. A panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform, cycloramas were designed to give viewers standing in the middle of the cylinder a 360° view, and were quite popular in the 1880's and '90's before being supplanted by moving pictures. OCLC lists seven copies of this booklet, locating six of them. From Historynet: In the spring of 1886, a mammoth Civil War artwork opened to paying audiences in New York City. Titled Cyclorama of the Battles of Vicksburg, May 22nd 1863, its exhibition in original or copy form, under the alternate names Panorama of the Land and Naval Battles of Vicksburg or General Grant’s Assault on Vicksburg, would later include extended showings in Milwaukee and San Francisco. Its popularity did not last. The public eventually turned for historical entertainment from Battles of Vicksburg and the six other Civil War cycloramas (and from the copies that at least three of those spawned) to the animated media of cinema and panoramic puppetry. Today the Vicksburg artwork is the least famous of the seven, and the fate of its canvas and three-dimensional foreground is unknown. Almost forgotten too is its role as a partisan expression in one of the Civil War’s major controversies.