Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Wagner showing quarters – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Wagner showing quarters in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Wagner showing quarters
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Fort Wagner, on Morris Island at the entrance to Charleston harbor, appears here not as a battlefield but as a working garrison, with soldiers living inside its earthen walls. Confederate forces abandoned the works in September 1863 after a long Union siege, and Federal troops held the post until the war ended. James F. Gibson made this stereograph in April 1865, a month that saw the Confederacy collapse. Its two glass plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gives the cramped quarters a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Morris Island S.C. April 1865. Interior of Fort Wagner showing quarters of Federal Garrison. 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 | 4,757 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52590 |
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