Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Ordnance depot on Morris Island – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Ordnance depot on Morris Island. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Ordnance depot on Morris Island
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Morris Island, the sandy barrier at the mouth of Charleston harbor, came under Union control in 1863 after the costly fight for Fort Wagner, and this 1865 stereograph shows one of its ordnance depots. The scene survives as two glass negatives that print the left and right halves of a stereo pair, meant to be viewed together for a sense of depth. Wet collodion plates like these were the standard of the period, and earlier records credited the work to Alexander Gardner, an attribution no longer taken for granted. The picture offers a look at the military supply operations that followed the fall of Charleston.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Morris Island S.C. Ordnance Depot. Annotation from negative on masking: 3512. 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 | 4,382 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47656 |
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