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Fort Sumter: Charleston Harbor, S.C. – Historic Print

Fort Sumter: Charleston Harbor, S.C., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1860 and 1870] — antique lithograph
Fort Sumter: Charleston Harbor, S.C., New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1860 and 1870]. Antique lithograph from the Charleston collection.

(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 Fort Sumter: Charleston Harbor, S.C., an antique lithograph 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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Fort Sumter: Charleston Harbor, S.C.

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Fort Sumter sits on a man-made island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, and this hand-colored lithograph from the New York firm Currier & Ives presents it as a subject of wide public interest. The fort is best known as the place where Confederate batteries opened fire on the Union garrison in April 1861, starting the Civil War. Currier & Ives produced many inexpensive color prints of notable places and events, so a view like this, issued between 1860 and 1870, would have reached buyers following the conflict or looking back on it. It is catalogued as number 2267 in a standard reference to the firm's work.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1860 and 1870]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenreLithographs Hand-colored 1860-1870.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2267
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-174465

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