Wreck of Blakely gun on the Frazers wharf Charleston S.C. – Vintage 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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Wreck of Blakely gun on the Frazers wharf Charleston S.C. 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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Wreck of Blakely gun on the Frazers wharf Charleston S.C.
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A wrecked Blakely gun, a British-designed rifled cannon that Confederate forces used in coastal defenses, sits at Frazers wharf in Charleston, which sets this view apart from the city's other war scenes. Charleston was evacuated in February 1865 and taken by Union forces, and the Brady-Handy studio recorded the damaged waterfront in the months that followed. The picture was issued as a stereograph, a card meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, a popular format that brought images of the war into parlors across the North.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3088. Brady-Handy Studio. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | War damage--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. Artillery (Weaponry)--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Destruction & pillage--Union. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 3,708 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269927 |
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