Charleston Harbor S.C. Crew members quarterdeck and starboard battery of U.S.S. Paw – 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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Step back in time with Charleston Harbor S.C. Crew members quarterdeck and starboard battery of U.S.S. Paw, a historic photograph rich in period detail. 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 Harbor S.C. Crew members quarterdeck and starboard battery of U.S.S. Paw
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This stereograph shows the crew of the U.S.S. *Pawnee* posed on the quarterdeck and starboard battery while the ship lay in Charleston Harbor in 1860. The image survives as a pair of glass negatives, along with a variant view, and it was made by the photographer David B. Woodbury, who worked in Charleston in the years before the war. Pictures like this were taken in the tense months when South Carolina was moving toward secession, and the presence of a Union warship in the harbor was itself a sign of that rising conflict. Look closely at the sailors' arrangement on deck and the guns of the battery, which show how a naval crew was organized and drilled at the time.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 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. 0562 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Transportation. Government vessels--Union.United States--South Carolina--Charleston Harbor. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,332 × 1,358 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51790 |
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