Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Gun with crew on Morris Island – 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 rare historic photograph captures Charleston South Carolina (vicinity). Gun with crew on Morris Island in remarkable 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 (vicinity). Gun with crew on Morris Island
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The caption on this negative identifies the gun as the Swamp Angel, a large Parrott rifle that Union engineers set up in the marsh at Morris Island in 1863 to shell Charleston, which lay several miles away. It burst during firing that summer, but this 1865 view shows the battery site itself and its crew near the end of the war. The negative is a wet collodion glass plate, a process that required photographers to coat, expose, and develop each plate within minutes. The record once credited Alexander Gardner, but that attribution is no longer assigned to this photographer.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Swamp Angel at Morris Island S.C. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,160 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47639 |
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