Charleston South Carolina. View of east face of Fort Sumter – 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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This historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina. View of east face of Fort Sumter brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston South Carolina. View of east face of Fort Sumter
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Few images show the east face of Fort Sumter as a stereograph, a matched pair of plates meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The fort stands on a man-made island at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, where the Civil War opened in April 1861 with the Confederate bombardment that forced the Union garrison to surrender. By 1865, after nearly four years of Union bombardment, the walls had been reduced to heaps of rubble, and Charleston itself was evacuated that February. The record once credited the photographer Alexander Gardner, though that attribution is no longer assumed.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View of the East face of Ft. Sumter Charleston S.C. 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 | 4,982 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47705 |
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