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Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861 – Vintage Print

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1861?] — antique lithograph
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [1861?]. Antique lithograph 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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A window into the past: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor: 12th & 13th of April, 1861

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Fort Sumter, a masonry fort on an island at the mouth of Charleston Harbor, was where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate batteries opened fire on the Union garrison under Major Robert Anderson. The bombardment continued into April 13, and Anderson surrendered the fort before his men were evacuated. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold affordable colored prints of current events, issued this hand-colored lithograph to show the attack to a public eager for news from Charleston.

Created / published[New York] : Currier & Ives, [1861?]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreD.C.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0664 Exhibited: With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-109883

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