Charleston South Carolina. Remains of Blakely gun destroyed by Confederates before – 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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A window into the past: Charleston South Carolina. Remains of Blakely gun destroyed by Confederates before, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Charleston South Carolina. Remains of Blakely gun destroyed by Confederates before
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The photograph shows a Blakely rifled gun, a British-made piece the Confederates used in coastal defenses, left in a wrecked state after its destruction. Its gaze turns toward the open sea, which hints at the harbor defenses that protected Charleston during the war. The Confederates abandoned the city in February 1865, and they destroyed many of their guns before leaving, so the scene records the aftermath of that evacuation. Photographer James F. Gibson made the image as a stereograph, a pair of plates that produced a three-dimensional view when seen through a viewer.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: wrecked Blakely Gun - Looking out to sea Charleston S.C. 1865. Annotation from negative scratched on emulsion: copyright. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gibson James F. b. 1828 photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,487 × 5,120 px · prints to 15 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-52614 |
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