Charleston South Carolina. Ruins – 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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Step back in time with Charleston South Carolina. Ruins, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Charleston South Carolina. Ruins
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Only the negative sleeve identifies this view, and it gives the place as Charleston, South Carolina, in 1865 but leaves the name of the ruin blank, so the building itself remains unidentified. The image is a stereograph pair: two glass plates made to be viewed together through a stereoscope, which gave a sense of depth. Confederate forces evacuated Charleston in February 1865, and fires that month destroyed much of the city's central business district, so ruins like this were a common subject for photographers working there that year. The plates were once credited to Alexander Gardner, an attribution that has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1865 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: Charleston S.C. 1865 Ruin of ____. 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 | 4,828 × 5,120 px · prints to 16 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-47683 |
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