Charleston Harbor South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter – 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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A window into the past: Charleston Harbor South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston Harbor South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
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This stereograph shows the interior of Fort Sumter, the brick fort on an island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor where the war began in April 1861 with the Confederate bombardment that forced the Union garrison to surrender. The image was taken in 1865, after Union forces had retaken the ruined fort in February of that year, and its two glass plates form a left and right pair meant to be viewed together for a three-dimensional effect. The record notes that the photograph was once attributed to Alexander Gardner, a leading Civil War photographer, though that attribution has since been questioned.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Interior of Fort Sumter Charleston Harbor S.C. 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 | 5,055 × 5,120 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47626 |
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