Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Putnam. (Morris Island) – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Putnam. (Morris Island) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Interior view of Fort Putnam. (Morris Island)
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Fort Putnam on Morris Island, at the southern edge of Charleston Harbor, is the subject of this 1865 interior view, taken as a stereograph pair that was meant to be seen through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. Morris Island was a Union foothold during the long campaign against Charleston, which had been the first Confederate state capital to secede and was one of the war's most fiercely contested ports. The image was made on a glass negative using the wet collodion process, and the Library of Congress notes that it was once credited to Alexander Gardner, an attribution that has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior view of Fort Putnam S.C. Morris Island. 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 | 4,951 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47653 |
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