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Charleston Battery--Three gun battery on Vanderhoffs Wharf, Charleston, S.C. – Vintage Print

Charleston Battery--Three gun battery on Vanderhoffs Wharf, Charleston, S.C., [photographed 1865 April, printed later] — historic photograph
Charleston Battery--Three gun battery on Vanderhoffs Wharf, Charleston, S.C., [photographed 1865 April, printed later]. Historic photograph from the Charleston collection.

(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 Battery--Three gun battery on Vanderhoffs Wharf, Charleston, S.C. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Charleston Battery--Three gun battery on Vanderhoffs Wharf, Charleston, S.C.

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Three cannon stand in a row on Vanderhoffs Wharf, a waterfront in Charleston, South Carolina, where Confederate harbor defenses were built. The picture dates to April 1865, about two months after Confederate forces left the city in February and Union troops moved in, so it captures the armament as it was found at war's end. Like other stereographs of the period, it was made as a pair of nearly identical images that produced a three-dimensional view through a stereoscope, a popular parlor entertainment of the 1860s and 1870s.

Created / published[photographed 1865 April, printed later]
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1860-1910.Photographic prints 1860-1910.
NotesCivil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). No. 3069. Brady-Handy Studio.
SubjectsPiers & wharves--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. Batteries (Weaponry)--South Carolina--Charleston--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment & supplies--Confederate.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,357 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-161962

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