Charleston South Carolina. The Orphan Asylum (160 Calhoun Street) – Antique Photo Print
(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 rare historic photograph captures Charleston South Carolina. The Orphan Asylum (160 Calhoun Street) in remarkable 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 South Carolina. The Orphan Asylum (160 Calhoun Street)
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This view shows the Orphan Asylum on Calhoun Street in Charleston, South Carolina, preserved as a stereograph pair: two glass negatives made from slightly different positions so the building appears three-dimensional through a stereoscope. The pictures date from 1865, the year Union forces occupied Charleston after Confederate troops evacuated the city in February, when photographers followed the armies to document the damaged and occupied South. The wet collodion process required quick exposure and development, which makes these plates a useful record of the period. Earlier catalogs credited Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is now uncertain.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Orphan Asylum Calhoun St. 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 | 5,120 × 5,115 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47697 |
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