Charleston S.C. Interior view of Castle Pinckney – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Charleston S.C. Interior view of Castle Pinckney, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston S.C. Interior view of Castle Pinckney
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This stereograph shows the inside of Castle Pinckney, a small brick fort on an island in Charleston Harbor that was built in the early 1800s and later became a military prison during the Civil War. The 1865 date places the scene in the final months of the war, when Charleston was evacuated and Union forces took control of the city. E. & H.T. Anthony, a New York firm that was among the largest publishers of war photography, issued the pair of images. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two side-by-side plates gave the viewer a sense of depth and of standing inside the fort.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| 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.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,276 × 1,364 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46470 |
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