Morris Island South Carolina. The Beacon House after the struggle for Fort Wagner J – 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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Step back in time with Morris Island South Carolina. The Beacon House after the struggle for Fort Wagner J, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Morris Island South Carolina. The Beacon House after the struggle for Fort Wagner J
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The Beacon House on Morris Island, South Carolina, stands in this 1863 view as a battered landmark after the fighting for nearby Fort Wagner. Union forces attacked the Confederate fort in July 1863, and the struggle left the island's buildings scarred and the siege lines close by. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate, a process that required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate within minutes, which made field work like this demanding. Mathew Brady's studio is credited with the photograph, and the scratched annotation naming Haas & Peale reflects the team that handled the negative.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: Haas & Peale; glass side: partial. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Brady Mathew B. 1823 (ca.)-1896 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 3,265 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52324 |
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