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East Battery, Charleston, S.C. – Historic Reproduction

East Battery, Charleston, S.C., c1906. — historic photograph
East Battery, Charleston, S.C., c1906.. 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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East Battery, Charleston, S.C. 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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East Battery, Charleston, S.C.

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East Battery is a promenade along the Charleston harbor waterfront, lined with grand houses and old cannons, and this view was made around 1906 on a pair of glass negatives from the Detroit Publishing Company. The Battery was built up as a defensive seawall in the 1700s and became one of the city's most fashionable addresses, where elegant residences look out over Charleston Harbor. Detroit Publishing photographers traveled widely to document American scenery and towns for color and black-and-white views sold to the public, so this image captures an early-twentieth-century view of the city's seaside promenade at a moment when tourism was growing.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium2 negatives : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
NotesD-7" and "L" on left negative; "D-8" and "R" on right negative. Videodisc images are out of sequence; actual left to right order is 1A-27350
SubjectsDwellings. Walkways. Cannons. Waterfronts.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 711 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-76715

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