Charleston South Carolina. Ruins of Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar. (Interior – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Charleston South Carolina. Ruins of Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar. (Interior comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Ruins of Cathedral of St. John and St. Finbar. (Interior
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The interior of St. John and St. Finbar, Charleston's Catholic cathedral, appears here as a ruin, its walls standing open to the sky. Many buildings in the city were burned or gutted during the war, and the fire of February 1865, which followed the Confederate evacuation and the Union occupation, destroyed much of the downtown area. This picture survives as a stereograph pair, with two plates meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope to create a sense of depth. It was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is now doubtful.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | 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 | 4,565 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47685 |
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