Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Steamers at wharf – 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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A window into the past: Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Steamers at wharf, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Steamers at wharf
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Two glass plates make up this stereograph pair, one for each eye, so that the steamers tied up at the wharf near Charleston appear in three dimensions when viewed through a stereoscope. The city had fallen to Union forces in February 1865, after the Confederate army evacuated, and its harbor and waterfront were central to the war's end. Wet collodion negatives like these were the standard way to record such scenes in the early 1860s. The record notes that the photograph was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since changed.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Steamer at wharf. 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 | 4,383 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47631 |
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