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Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C. ruins of buildings – Historic Photograph Print

Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C. ruins of buildings, [between 1861 and 1865] — historic photograph
Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C. ruins of buildings, [between 1861 and 1865]. Historic photograph 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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Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C. ruins of buildings comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Vendue Range, Charleston, S.C. ruins of buildings

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Vendue Range, the row of waterfront warehouses where goods were once sold at public auction, is the subject of this stereograph of ruined buildings in Charleston, South Carolina. The city suffered a major fire in December 1861 and endured repeated Union bombardment during the war, which left much of its commercial district gutted. Built as a pair of nearly identical views for a stereoscope, the card gives the broken walls and rubble a sense of depth that flat photographs could not. Its caption dates it to the war years, between 1861 and 1865.

Created / published[between 1861 and 1865]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsThe War for the Union. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: War damage; SC--C-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,495 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-135582

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