[Bird's-eye view of Circular Church, amid ruins of Charleston, S.C.] – Historic Map Reproduction
![[Bird's-eye view of Circular Church, amid ruins of Charleston, S.C.], 1865 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7a/7a2b2558b908-L.webp)
(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: [Bird's-eye view of Circular Church, amid ruins of Charleston, S.C.], preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Bird's-eye view of Circular Church, amid ruins of Charleston, S.C.]
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Circular Church, a Congregational house of worship on Meeting Street, stands in this bird's-eye view surrounded by the wreckage of the city around it. The picture dates to 1865, when Charleston had endured more than three years of Union naval and artillery bombardment, and fires set during the Confederate evacuation in February of that year had destroyed large parts of the downtown district. Views taken from above like this one were rare at the time and show how far the damage reached across the city's streets and rooftops. The record is based on an old caption card, so some details should be checked against other sources.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 3440. Civil War Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Churches; Geogr.; C.W.; War damage. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,404 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147020 |
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