Folly Island S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built bl – Antique 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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Folly Island S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built bl comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Folly Island S.C. (vicinity of Charleston). Beached remains of the British-built bl
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A beached hulk is the detail that sets this stereograph apart. The title identifies it as a British-built vessel, one of the fast steamers that Confederate agents bought abroad to run cargo past the Union blockade. The scene was taken on Folly Island, a barrier island just south of Charleston that Union forces had occupied as a staging ground during the long campaign against the city. Its two nearly identical plates were meant to be viewed together through a stereoscope, a popular way to bring distant war scenes into parlors.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0549 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Naval operations. Government vessels--Confederate. Naval warfare. Blockade running.United States--South Carolina--Folly Island. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,192 × 1,350 px · prints to 4 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46247 |
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