Charleston S.C. Archibald McLeishs Vulcan Iron Works and other houses on Cumberland – 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 S.C. Archibald McLeishs Vulcan Iron Works and other houses on Cumberland in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston S.C. Archibald McLeishs Vulcan Iron Works and other houses on Cumberland
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Few wartime Charleston views name a specific business as clearly as this one, which identifies Archibald McLeish's Vulcan Iron Works on Cumberland alongside neighboring houses. Taken in 1865, it is a stereograph, a pair of glass plates meant to be viewed through a stereoscope so the street appears to stand out in depth. The city had been shelled by Union forces and damaged by a large fire in 1861, and by early 1865 Confederate troops had withdrawn and Union forces had taken control, so the scene captures a port city in the uneasy months that followed. The New York firm E. & H.T. Anthony, a major stereograph publisher, issued the pair.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm) publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. McLeish Archibald.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,284 × 1,354 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46454 |
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