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Charleston S.C. Confederate torpedoes shot and shell in the Arsenal yard – Historic Reproduction

Charleston S.C. Confederate torpedoes shot and shell in the Arsenal yard, 1865 — historic photograph
Charleston S.C. Confederate torpedoes shot and shell in the Arsenal yard, 1865. Historic photograph from the Charleston collection.

(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 S.C. Confederate torpedoes shot and shell in the Arsenal yard. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few images from the end of the war capture Charleston as bluntly as this stereograph of Confederate torpedoes, or naval mines, stacked in the Arsenal yard. Taken in 1865, after Union forces had taken the city, the picture shows the ordnance the Confederates had left behind, with its iron shot and shell laid out in the open. The Charleston Arsenal had been a major military facility, and the scene offers a sobering look at the city's wartime industry. Made as a stereograph pair, the view was meant to be seen in three dimensions through a special viewer.

Created / published1865
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesCivil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0655 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Military facilities. Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War 1861-1865. Armories.United States--South Carolina--Charleston.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan1,282 × 1,360 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46107

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