Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Castle Pinckney Charleston Harbor – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Castle Pinckney Charleston Harbor. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Castle Pinckney Charleston Harbor
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Castle Pinckney, a small brick fort on Shutter's Island in Charleston Harbor, is the subject of this view of its interior, taken in 1865 as the Civil War was ending. The picture survives as a stereograph, a pair of wet collodion glass negatives meant to be seen together through a viewer for a three-dimensional effect. Stereo views like this were popular in the 1860s, and the Union occupation of Charleston after the Confederates abandoned the city in February 1865 drew many photographers there. The record once credited the image to Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is no longer considered reliable.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. 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 | 4,919 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47669 |
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