Charleston South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter showing result of bombardme – Vintage 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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Step back in time with Charleston South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter showing result of bombardme, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Exterior view of Fort Sumter showing result of bombardme
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The shattered outer wall of Fort Sumter and the chevaux-de-frise, the timber barrier with sharpened spikes meant to repel an assault, set this stereograph apart. The damage dates to the Union bombardment of August 17 to 23, 1863, but the view was made in April 1865, after Confederate forces had left Charleston and Union troops had returned to the harbor. Photographer James F. Gibson recorded it as one half of a stereo pair on wet collodion glass, a format that let viewers see the ruined fort in three dimensions through a parlor viewer.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Exterior view showing destruction of outer wall & chevaux-de-frise for protection against assault (April 1865). Result of the bombardment from Aug. 17 to 23rd 1863. Similar - Miller vol. 5 p. 122. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,478 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52600 |
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