Charleston S.C. Fort Sumter from the sand-bar – Antique 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 Charleston S.C. Fort Sumter from the sand-bar. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston S.C. Fort Sumter from the sand-bar
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Fort Sumter, the brick fortification on a shoal at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, is seen here from a sand bar, a vantage that puts the ruined walls in the foreground of the harbor. This stereograph pair was made in 1865, after the Union had spent more than three years trying to reduce the fort, where the first shots of the Civil War had been fired in April 1861. Photographed by the firm of E. & H.T. Anthony, the two glass plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, giving the scene a sense of depth. The pictures are worth studying for the battered masonry they show, a reminder of how much the Union bombardment had reduced 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. 0602 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--Military facilities. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Forts & fortifications.United States--South Carolina--Charleston. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,188 × 1,366 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46461 |
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