Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter – 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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Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter 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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Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
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Few places carry more weight in the Civil War than Fort Sumter, the brick fortification on an island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor where Confederate guns opened fire in April 1861. This stereograph shows the fort's interior in 1865, after Union forces returned to the ruins in February as Charleston was abandoned. Made as two glass plates that form a left and right pair, it was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope for a three-dimensional effect. The photograph was once credited to Alexander Gardner, a leading war photographer, but that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | 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 | 4,803 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47673 |
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