Charleston South Carolina. Orphan Asylum – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina. Orphan Asylum. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston South Carolina. Orphan Asylum
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Few Charleston views from 1865 show a charitable institution, which makes this stereograph unusual among the city's wartime pictures. The pair of glass negatives, now in the Library of Congress Civil War collection, records an orphan asylum at a moment when the city had changed hands and its civilian institutions were under strain. Union forces occupied Charleston in February 1865, after years of siege and bombardment, and the city was left with damaged buildings, shortages, and many children without families. The plates were long attributed to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Orphan Asylum Charleston S.C. 1865. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,945 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47680 |
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