Fort Fisher North Carolina. Battery Lamb on sea front – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Fort Fisher North Carolina. Battery Lamb on sea front. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Fort Fisher North Carolina. Battery Lamb on sea front
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Battery Lamb, the seaward face of Fort Fisher on North Carolina's coast, is the subject here, and the glass negative shows the earthworks that guarded the Cape Fear River approach to Wilmington, the Confederacy's last major open port for blockade runners. Union forces took the fort in January 1865 after a costly assault, and this 1865 view records its condition in the months that followed. The negative is a wet collodion plate, a process that required photographers to coat and expose the glass while it was still wet. Earlier cataloging credited Alexander Gardner, the Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Fisher N.C. Battery Lamb on sea front of fort. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,104 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-48514 |
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