Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Remains of famous Floating Battery – Historic 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). Remains of famous Floating Battery 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). Remains of famous Floating Battery
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The subject here is the remains of the Floating Battery, a Confederate harbor defense that the original caption credits with helping South Carolinians drive Major Robert Anderson and his garrison out of Fort Sumter in 1861. The caption dates its condition to 1863, but the photograph was taken in 1865, so it shows the wreck as it stood in the postwar period. Photographer James F. Gibson made this wet collodion glass negative as a stereograph, with two plates that form the left and right views of a pair meant to be seen together through a viewer. The pair is a useful record of how Charleston Harbor's wartime defenses looked after the fighting ended.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: What remained in 1863 of the Famous Floating Battery that aided the South Carolinians to dirve Anderson & his men out of Sumter in 1861. Miller vol. 5 p. 155. 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 | 4,662 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52591 |
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