Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter – Historic Photograph Print
(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 South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Charleston South Carolina. Interior view of Fort Sumter
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Few places in the Civil War are as recognizable as Fort Sumter, the masonry fort at the mouth of Charleston Harbor where the war's first shots were fired in April 1861. This stereograph shows the fort's interior in 1865, after more than three years of bombardment had reduced much of it to rubble, and after Union troops took the site when Charleston was abandoned that February. Stereographs like this were made as a pair of glass plates so that viewing them through a stereoscope gave a sense of depth. The record notes that the photographer was earlier attributed to Alexander Gardner.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Fort Sumter. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. 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 | 4,401 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47675 |
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