Charleston S.C. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter – Antique 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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Charleston S.C. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 S.C. Beacon on parapet of Fort Sumter
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A beacon rising from the parapet of Fort Sumter sets this view apart from the many pictures of the fort's shattered walls. The fort, on an island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, was where the Civil War opened in April 1861, when Confederate batteries fired on the Union garrison, and Union guns battered it through much of the years that followed. The stereograph was issued by E. & H.T. Anthony, a New York firm that sold paired views like this one to a wide public. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two halves give the ruined masonry and the beacon real depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,158 × 1,360 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46456 |
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