Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter on the occasion of the rais – 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. Interior view of Fort Sumter on the occasion of the rais, 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. Interior view of Fort Sumter on the occasion of the rais
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The view is taken from the parapet of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1865, the day the old flag was raised over the fort again. That date was no accident: it marked four years to the day since Union forces under Major Robert Anderson had surrendered the fort to Confederate batteries in Charleston Harbor, which opened the Civil War. Photographer James F. Gibson made the image as a stereograph, so the two glass negatives, one for each eye, produce a three-dimensional view when viewed together. Its wet collodion process required the photographer to prepare and expose each plate on the spot, making it a direct record of the ceremony's setting.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: view from parapet of Ft. Sumter Taken April 14 1865 on the occasion of the raising of the old flag. 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 | 4,862 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52608 |
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