Beaufort South Carolina. View of Beaufort from the waterfront – Vintage 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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Beaufort South Carolina. View of Beaufort from the waterfront comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Beaufort South Carolina. View of Beaufort from the waterfront
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Taken in December 1861, this view looks across the Beaufort, South Carolina, waterfront, a town Union forces had occupied only weeks earlier after the navy's victory at Port Royal Sound. It survives as a stereograph, two glass negatives exposed side by side so that a stereoscope could fuse them into a single image with depth. The photographer is recorded as T. H. O'Sullivan, who later became known for his Civil War and Western survey work. The wet collodion process required each glass plate to be coated, exposed and developed within minutes, which made field work like this demanding.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: T. H. OSullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: View in Beaufort S.C. Dec. 1861. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 3,972 × 5,120 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52562 |
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