Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). The Swamp Angel? – Historic Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). The Swamp Angel?, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). The Swamp Angel?
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The Swamp Angel was a Union siege gun, an 8-inch Parrott rifle, set up in a marsh south of Charleston in 1863 to shell the city from a distance. It fired on Charleston for a few weeks before it burst, and this 1865 stereograph records the battery's site after the war. Photographer James F. Gibson made the pair of glass plates during the postwar period, when many Civil War locations were documented for public viewing. Stereographs like this one were meant to be seen through a viewer, which gives the marshy ground and the gun's position a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: The Swamp Angel before Charleston S.C. Annotation from negative image side: 3601. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,578 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52594 |
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