Charleston South Carolina. Samuel Cooley photographer with his camera on the batter – Vintage Photo 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Charleston South Carolina. Samuel Cooley photographer with his camera on the batter, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Samuel Cooley photographer with his camera on the batter
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What sets this stereograph apart is that its title places the photographer, Samuel Cooley, on the Battery with his camera. The caption points across the harbor toward Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861. Made in 1865, after Union forces had taken Charleston that February, the view records the harbor in the war's final months. Its two glass plates each hold one eye's view, so a stereoscope fuses them into a single three-dimensional scene.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. 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 | 4,547 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52621 |
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