Charleston Harbor South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter – Historic Photo 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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This historic photograph of Charleston Harbor South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston Harbor South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
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Few places in the war carry as much weight as Fort Sumter, and this stereograph pair shows its interior in 1865, after Confederate forces abandoned the fort in February as Union armies closed in on Charleston. The fort had been the site of the first shots of the war in April 1861, and years of bombardment had left its walls battered. The two glass plates were made to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which fused them into a single image with depth, a popular format for home viewing at the time. The record once credited the work to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior of Fort Sumter Charleston Harbor S.C. 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 | 5,114 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47620 |
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