Saint Augustine Fla. Bastions of Fort Marion – 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 rare historic photograph captures Saint Augustine Fla. Bastions of Fort Marion in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Saint Augustine Fla. Bastions of Fort Marion
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Few places on the Atlantic coast carry as much history as the bastions of Fort Marion, the Spanish stone fortress at St. Augustine, Florida. Built of coquina, a shell-based limestone, the Castillo de San Marcos was begun in 1672 and finished around 1695, and the U.S. Army renamed it Fort Marion in 1825. This 1860 stereograph by photographer James F. Gibson, made as a left and right pair meant to be viewed together, captures the fort on the eve of Florida's secession and the Civil War that followed.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0657 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Forts & fortifications.United States--Florida--Saint Augustine. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,194 × 1,350 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46737 |
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