Swamp Angel Charleston S.C. – 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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This historic photograph of Swamp Angel Charleston S.C. brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Swamp Angel Charleston S.C.
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The sleeve title names the Swamp Angel, the 200-pounder Parrott rifle that Union engineers placed in a marsh near Morris Island in 1863 to shell Charleston. The date of 1860 and the pencilled address, 755 Pulaski, suggest the negative shows a city scene from before that gun existed, so the title should be treated as unverified. The negative was made by photographer David B. Woodbury, who died in 1866, and it survives in the Library of Congress's Civil War glass negative collection. Its interest lies in recording Charleston as it stood on the eve of the war, when the city was among the most important ports in the South.
| Created / published | 1860 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from unverified information on negative sleeve. Annotation from negative in pencil: 755 Pulaski. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Woodbury D. B. (David B.) d. 1866 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 3,960 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-51250 |
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